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Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design. — Oliver Sacks

The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. — Ernest Hemingway,

But after my fall and my near death, fear and caution — Oliver Sacks

Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being. — Oliver Sacks

It remains, for me, the most powerful and elegant explanation of how we humans and our brains construct our very individual selves and worlds. — Oliver Sacks

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. — Oliver Sacks

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock

[photography] ... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way. — Oliver Sacks

It feels good to get sacks and to know I can do it. — Jason Pierre-Paul

When I was twelve, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report, "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far," and this was often the case. — Oliver Sacks

Music is ... a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine. — Oliver Sacks

For there is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation. — Oliver Sacks

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good. — Jonathan Sacks

Pride and a Daily Marathon, — Oliver Sacks

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination. — Oliver Sacks

The two Reds crewing the old trash collector are giving us a countdown. When it reaches one, Sevro says, "Tuck your sacks and pop your cloaks." I — Pierce Brown

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety. — Jonathan Sacks

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations. — Oliver Sacks

In his autobiography, What Mad Pursuit, he speaks of the difference between physics and biology: — Oliver Sacks

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity. — Jonathan Sacks

He reached out his hand, and took hold of his wife's head, tried to lift it off, to put it on. He had apparently mistaken his wife for a hat! — Oliver Sacks

They got another girl in Louisiana who robbed two college boys and put fish hooks in their ball sacks after stealing their car and all their money. — Eryk Pruitt

Uncritical followership and habits of silent obedience give rise to the corruptions of power, or sometimes simply to avoidable catastrophes. For — Jonathan Sacks

many cardinal characteristics of migraine aura, in its visual (scotomatous), tactile (paraesthetic) and aphasic forms. We — Oliver Sacks

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot. — Jonathan Sacks

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love. — Oliver Sacks

I often dream ... of my parents and of my former patients - all long gone but loved and important in my life. — Oliver Sacks

Now there is stillness - such a stillness as I have never heard before in all my life. Soon I shall start moving again, and perhaps I will never stop. — Oliver Sacks

Astounded - and indifferent - for he was a man who, in effect, had no 'day before'. — Oliver Sacks

He wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'. — Oliver Sacks

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice. — Walter Wriston

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities. — Jonathan Sacks

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home. — Jonathan Sacks

Each of us, I had written, constructs and lives a "narrative" and is defined by this narrative. — Oliver Sacks

In REM sleep the body is paralyzed, except for shallow breathing and eye movements. — Oliver Sacks

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency. — Jonathan Sacks

Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness. — Oliver Sacks

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. — Oliver Sacks

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity. — Jonathan Sacks

My pre-med studies in anatomy and physiology at Oxford had not prepared me in the least for real medicine. — Oliver Sacks

As for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it?' - and — Oliver Sacks

The Allegory of the Wolf Boy" ("At tennis and at tea/Upon the gentle lawn, he is not ours,/But plays us in a sad duplicity"). — Oliver Sacks

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders. — Jonathan Sacks

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous. — Jonathan Sacks

Parked the bike in a side road - and fainted. The second accident occurred at night in heavy — Oliver Sacks

Sudden fright, or rage, or other strong emotion may disperse and displace a migraine almost within seconds. One — Oliver Sacks

There is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation. - OLIVER SACKS — Maia Szalavitz

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives. — Jonathan Sacks

The power of music to integrate and cure ... is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. — Oliver Sacks

Having ferned for an hour, we take a break for our lunch and I eat, unwisely, quite an enormous meal ... — Oliver Sacks

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. — Oliver Sacks

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers. — Oliver Sacks

And one day the mind leaps from imagination to hallucination, and the congregant hears God, sees God. — Oliver Sacks

This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world. — Oliver Sacks

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 of musical species. — Oliver Sacks

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery. — Jonathan Sacks

It also gave me a feeling of vulnerability and mortality which I had not really had before. In — Oliver Sacks

Experience and experiment are crucially important here - neural Darwinism is essentially experiential selection. The — Oliver Sacks

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart. — Jonathan Sacks

Part of success is just starting something, working toward a goal, and then living long enough to achieve it. — Mike Sacks

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds. — Jonathan Sacks

Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin — Jonathan Sacks

Peace comes when we see our reflection in the face of God and let go of the desire to be someone else. — Jonathan Sacks

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people. — Oliver Sacks

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. — Oliver Sacks

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy. — Jonathan Sacks

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.. — Oliver Sacks

Don't they put aunts in Turkey in sacks and drop them in the Bosphorus?' 'Odalisques, sir, I understand. Not aunts. — P.G. Wodehouse

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. — Oliver Sacks

My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. — Oliver Sacks

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds. — Oliver Sacks

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain. — Oliver Sacks

She now receives love, attention, and invisible presents from a hallucinatory gentleman who visits faithfully each evening. — Oliver Sacks

During the season ... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that. — Clay Matthews III

At 11, I could say 'I am sodium' (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold. — Oliver Sacks

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. — Oliver Sacks