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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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