"The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human."

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Source : Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.244, Atlantic Books Ltd

Daniel Levitin

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“In 1965, in Reed v. Van Hoven, a court determined (237 F.Supp. 48. W.D.Mich. 1965.) that it was permissible for students to pray over their lunch at school so long as no one knew they were praying - that is, they couldn't say words or move their lips, but they could pray only if no one knew about it!”
“I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.”

Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com
“Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.”

Source : Dennis Bakke (2010). “Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job”, p.148, PVG
“Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.”
“Betty White met with President Obama at the White House. President Obama invited Betty personally because she's great with animals. And the president's still having a tough time house-training Joe Biden.”
“If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.”
“I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.”

Source : "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.
“Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.”

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