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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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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his…
— Alfred Adler
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the…
— Samuel Johnson
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the…
— John Burroughs
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Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on…
— William J. Brennan
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not…
— Solomon
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I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.
— Oliver Sacks
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Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
— Le Corbusier
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