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One Quotes by Oliver Sacks
- I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling.…
- There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.
- There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they…
- I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given…
- It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and…
- Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built…
- I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community…
- One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make…
- The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must…
- The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--
- There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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