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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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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's…
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One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that…
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Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what…
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The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own…
— Erica Jong
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It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about…
— Edmund Gibson
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Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
— Erica Jong
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying…
— Lucretius
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