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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of…
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Exuberance is beauty.
— William Blake
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Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I…
— Charlie Chaplin
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A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
— Bob Black
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As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem…
— Lewis Thomas
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You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts…
— Sheilah Graham Westbrook
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
— Alan Greenspan
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Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked…
— Gail Caldwell
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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp…
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.
— Isaac Mizrahi
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and…
— Robert Frost
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As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will…
— Chris Hedges
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