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“Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.”

Thinking Way Heart Important School Turns Speak Language Class Cutting Music Is Crosses Vices Observation Granted Borders Vice Versa

Author:Dan Rather

“The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.”

Ideas Soul Moving Turns Effort Existence Fire Ought Philosopher Senses Observation Burning Sentiments Rays Centre Darts

Author:Madame de Stael

“The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

Humans Kind Littles Philosophy Turns Natural Perfect Results Moral Ignorance Weakness Observation Spite Portions Blindness Metaphysical Endeavour Elude

Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

“If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would but turn their thoughts inwardly, they would probably find that they have a great work to do at home; and that, when that shall have been completed, they will be little disposed to do more towards correcting the vices of others, than simply to give to others the results of their experience and observation.”

Ifs Men Giving Littles Persons Has Beens Home Turns Results Vices Observation Fancy Gifted Great Work Correcting

Book:Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty

Source: Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty

“Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice...And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together.”

Writing Said Together Turns Levels One Thing Advice Contrary Observation Just One Soup Linked

Author:Lucy Calkins

“The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

Humans Philosophy Turns Results Weakness Observation Spite Blindness Endeavour Elude

Book:Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding ... Second edition. With additions and corrections

Source: Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding ... Second edition. With additions and corrections