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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.…
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In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way…
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If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to…
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture…
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All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
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As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
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Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects…
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Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need…
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The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment,…
— Edward Weston
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I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily…
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the…
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The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own…
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible…
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As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of…
— Ruth St. Denis
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The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we…
— Robert Charles Wilson
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I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this…
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