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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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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…
— Oliver Sacks
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Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they…
— Michel Houellebecq
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A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say "no" in…
— David O. McKay
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Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord,…
— Brigham Young
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Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we…
— Joaquin Miller
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a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer…
— E E Cummings
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The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout…
— Martin Luther
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When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and…
— Epictetus
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Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want…
— John Updike
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When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.
— Zinedine Zidane
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Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power,…
— John Bunyan
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