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“Just because I loves you–
That's de reason why
Ma soul is full of color
Like de wings of a butterfly.
Just because I loves you
That's de reason why
Ma heart's a fluttering aspen leaf
When you pass by.”
―
That's de reason why
Ma soul is full of color
Like de wings of a butterfly.
Just because I loves you
That's de reason why
Ma heart's a fluttering aspen leaf
When you pass by.”
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“What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task.”
― Sunshine
― Sunshine
“In the chemistry lab at school, did you ever hold a test tube, pouring in liquids and powders and seeing nothing happen until a certain powder is poured in and then everything begins to smoke and fume, bubble and boil, hiss to foam, and sometimes even explode? The tube is suddenly full of action and movement and life. Well there are people like those certain liquids or powders; at a given moment they come into a room, or into a town, even into a country-and the place is never the same again. Things bubble, boil, change. Sometimes the whole world is changed.”
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“Nonsense,” Bridget said. “The secret to happiness is freedom—and the secret to freedom is courage.”
― The Moonlight Palace
― The Moonlight Palace
“Recent breakthroughs in the field of neuro-science have shown that playing the piano is good for your brain. Dr. Gottfried Schlaug of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School spoke in 2009 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on the brain’s “plasticity”—its capacity to change—and announced that even nine- to eleven-year-old musicians show more brain activity than nonmusicians when performing tasks that require high levels of perceptual discrimination. Playing the piano, it turns out, is especially effective in enhancing skills in such important areas as pattern recognition and memory. To your health!”
― A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between
― A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between
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