"I cannot pretend i am not without fear…" — Oliver Sacks
"I cannot pretend i am not without fear…"
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78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks has 78 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange…
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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…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual…
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you.…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many…
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More Cannot Pretend Quotes
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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for…
— Winston Churchill
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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them.…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything…
— Rajneesh
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We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.
— Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
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Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore -…
— Matthew Ashford
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Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time…
— H. Jay Dinshah
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I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been…
— Oliver Sacks
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We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in…
— J. B. Priestley
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All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall…
— Samuel Florman
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Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly…
— Barack Obama
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You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced…
— Lloyd Jones
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I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been…
— Diane Setterfield
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