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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 cases had been…
- There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.
- I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
- Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.
- Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built…
- Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited…
- We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle