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“I know now that music is not about fingers or bows or strings, but rather a connective vibration flowing through all human beings, like a heartbeat.”
― Rosamund Stone Zander, The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

tags: connection, music, vibration

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“Life’s disappointments are harder to take if you don’t know any swear words.”
― Heather Shumaker, It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids

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“The success of a book, far from elevating its author, belittled him, transforming him into merchandise.”
― Antoine Lilti, The Invention of Celebrity

tags: authors, celebrity, objectification

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“Public homage was like a humiliation. The author was caught in a psychologically damaging confusion between his social being, reduced to only a face and a body, subject to gawking and applause, and his moral being.”
― Antoine Lilti, The Invention of Celebrity

tags: celebrity, fame, homage

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“Le Cardinal's conclusion suprised him. L'Arche produced a collective intelligence that was greater than the sum of its parts; interaction between the able and the disabled produced points of view that were more sophisticated than either group reported on its own.”
― Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son

tags: community, disability, emergent-properties, intelligence, systems

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