Benjamin Rush Quotes
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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You don't talk to terror organizations!
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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I remember a West Coast run with Madness and another with Adam Ant, later a long run through the Midwest with Berlin and a few gigs with Eurythmics.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
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Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
