Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

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Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.

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Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories. ― Bill Watterson

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body. - Shawn Achor

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andre Gide

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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

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At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better. — Sri Chinmoy

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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