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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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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships…
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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and…
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Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to…
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There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of…
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Chicken pot pie--those are my three favorite things.
— Unknown Author
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I seriously love to cook ... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid I used to help her make handmade…
— Bradley Cooper
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I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian -…
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I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and…
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