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Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography

This autobiography delves into the personal experiences and challenges faced by a celebrated singer, offering a candid account of their rise to fame and the emotional storms they navigated along the way. more

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Holly Near
Holly Near

Holly Near, born on June 6, 1949, is an American singer-songwriter. Her musical career began in the 1970s, and she is known for her folk and pop music. Holly Near has gained widespread recognition and acclaim in the music industry with her unique voice and heartfelt lyrics. more

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“All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.”

“As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increasingly tiresome pendulum swing is to change our conception of what philosophy is good for. But that is not something which will be accomplished by a few neat arguments. It will be accomplished, if it ever is, by a long, slow process of cultural change - that is to say, of change in common sense, changes in the intuitions available for being pumped up by philosophical arguments.”