Daniel Levitin Quotes
Consonant intervals and dissonant intervals are processed via separate mechanisms in the auditory cortex.
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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I sleep better on the road than I do at home. I'm used to sleeping in a million different hotels. I'm not home very often, so when I get home, I have things I want to do.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
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Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John Kasich will prevail in Ohio.
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It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
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Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.
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Consonant intervals and dissonant intervals are processed via separate mechanisms in the auditory cortex.
