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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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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
— Madonna Ciccone
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The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No…
— Eckhart Tolle
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A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it…
— Adolf Hitler
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to…
— Oscar Wilde
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If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of…
— Thomas Browne
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I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities,…
— Winston Churchill
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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
— Saul Bellow
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There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness.…
— Stephen Fry
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Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale…
— John L'Heureux
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The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not…
— Tertullian
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The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way…
— Lindsey Graham
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