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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 1812063" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p><a href="http://s68.photobucket.com/user/skyflyer9/media/19sacksappraisal-web-master675.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/skyflyer9/19sacksappraisal-web-master675.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Scientist, artist, philosopher, reckless motorcycle driver - the world is a lesser place without you Sir.</p><p></p><p>“If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.” </p><p>― <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/843200.Oliver_Sacks" target="_blank">Oliver Sacks</a>, <em> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/882844" target="_blank">The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales</a></em></p><p></p><p></p><p>And, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/my-periodic-table.html" target="_blank">this</a>, written not much more than a month ago. </p><p></p><p>What an amazing sense of grace, a continuous child-like curiosity about the world, and a deep appreciation for his own life and the lives of his patients.</p><p></p><p>RIP.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 1812063, member: 18225"] [URL=http://s68.photobucket.com/user/skyflyer9/media/19sacksappraisal-web-master675.jpg.html][IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/skyflyer9/19sacksappraisal-web-master675.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Scientist, artist, philosopher, reckless motorcycle driver - the world is a lesser place without you Sir. “If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.” ― [URL='https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/843200.Oliver_Sacks']Oliver Sacks[/URL], [I] [URL='https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/882844']The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales[/URL][/I] And, [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/my-periodic-table.html']this[/URL], written not much more than a month ago. [I][/I] What an amazing sense of grace, a continuous child-like curiosity about the world, and a deep appreciation for his own life and the lives of his patients. RIP. [/QUOTE]
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