The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things … - Barack Obama

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Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Barack Obama

The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.

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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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