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“Public homage was like a humiliation. The author was caught in a psychologically damaging confusion between his social being, reduced to only a face and a body, subject to gawking and applause, and his moral being.”
― Antoine Lilti, The Invention of Celebrity

tags: celebrity, fame, homage

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“Le Cardinal's conclusion suprised him. L'Arche produced a collective intelligence that was greater than the sum of its parts; interaction between the able and the disabled produced points of view that were more sophisticated than either group reported on its own.”
― Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son

tags: community, disability, emergent-properties, intelligence, systems

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“I know now that music is not about fingers or bows or strings, but rather a connective vibration flowing through all human beings, like a heartbeat.”
― Rosamund Stone Zander, The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

tags: connection, music, vibration

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“Life’s disappointments are harder to take if you don’t know any swear words.”
― Heather Shumaker, It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids

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“She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers.”
― Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

tags: anxiety, cleaning, home, housework, relaxation

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