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Music is. . . a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

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Simone Weil

The great error of nearly all studies of war. . . has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

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Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

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It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

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Michael Hastings

When you go into a country like Libya where a large chunk of the population wants the old regime back you could end up with a protracted civil war. That we're now in a stalemate was both entirely predictable, and predicted. That we're now relying on drones is disturbing. How vital can a cause be if we're not willing to risk American lives to defend it, and instead use robots and remote control operators? It gets me back to the larger feeling about the intervention - there's just not a compelling reason for us to be involved.

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Jack Welch

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I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package. On the other hand, you learn some leadership skills, like self-confidence, at your mother's knee, and at school, in academics and sports. And you learn others at work-trying something, getting it wrong and learning from it, or getting it right and gaining the self-confidence to do it again, only better.

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Music is. . . a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

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