"Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy."

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Source : " Songs and freedom in West Papua" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.

Jay Griffiths

#Empathy Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Singing Quotes

“China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.”

Source : The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.
“For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.”

Source : Robert K. Greenleaf, Hamilton Beazley, Julie Beggs (2003). “The Servant-leader Within: A Transformative Path”, p.41, Paulist Press
“I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.”
“My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.”
“FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and shame, about victims and perpetrators, about reasons, arguments and beliefs that led to the conflict in the first place, etc. All of this needed and still needs answering and ongoing discussions, but I mostly felt overwhelmed and unqualified to articulate anything worth more than personal experiences of the siege, of fear and refuge - all the things which I wrote about anyway.”
“Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.”
“The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.”
“Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.”

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