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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal 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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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!
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A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.
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Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)
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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.
