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“Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.”

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But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of 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 the ears.

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“We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognise and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there…

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“But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess— that there is always a reaction, on the part of the affected organism or individual, to restore, to replace, to compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be: and to study or influence these means, no less…

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There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different…

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I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort…

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Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of…

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“unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the…

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“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each of us constructs and lives, a “narrative,” and that this narrative is us, our identities. If we wish to know about a man, we ask “what is his story — his real, inmost story?” — for…

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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 unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

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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 at you.…

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Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and…

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The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

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We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September…

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The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...…

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It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing…

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Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this…

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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,…

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What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.

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If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of…

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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no…

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Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

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