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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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I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all…
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man.…
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are…
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As financial market players know, advantage comes from reacting to news first. The same thing is true for all companies. When you…
— David Meerman Scott
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When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when…
— John D. Rockefeller
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Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single…
— Charles Babbage
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