William C. Dement famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives
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Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment.
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Sleep is an essential part of life-but more important, sleep is a gift.
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We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway
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Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.
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Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.
-- William C. Dement
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
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The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.
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Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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