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Since technology is often ahead of consciousness, society manages to create weapons that are a serious detriment to our well-being. The deepest, most fundamental, spiritual insight is that we are […]
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The measure of a good life is the cultivation of compassion as well as a deeper understanding of the self.
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People must understand that they are neither as powerful as their fantasies, nor as powerless as their nightmares. There is a necessity to practice compassion, which flows outward, in a […]
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Bono and Alfredo Barraza.
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This country has a terribly hard time saying that we were wrong and that we made a mistake.
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How the United States will cope with China’s rising prominence.
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Harbison sees some hopeful signs.
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Harbison can read the King James Bible over and over.
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Unfortunately right now religion is being used to legitimate people’s group and political identities rather than actually destabilizing all identities so that new relationships can be developed across every possible […]
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We have a tremendous attraction to intolerance bred into the early life of this country, Harbison says.
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Harbison cultivates his self-confidence.
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From his traditional Jewish parents, Kula learned that throughout any practice and ritual in any religious system or any theory about living, there must be people who can produce food. […]
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The younger generation never had to go through composer’s boot camp.
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John Harbison discusses creative process. He believes everyone has their own process.
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Growing up in a traditional Jewish home and attending Columbia University, Kula cites the diversity of New York City in terms of people, ideas, food, and music, as an experience […]
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On composing around the digressive, self-centered poetry of Newash.
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Harbison discusses his influences and recounts seeing Stravinsky conduct.
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Reality, Kula says, is a giant connect-the-dots game.
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No one is totally true, nor are they totally false. Transcript:A personal philosophy? I don’t know. I don’t think I have any grand philosophical philosophy. I guess it would be […]
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali says America should invest in African industries.
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The U.S. has failed to identify its enemies clearly.
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Are we capable of imaging the world in which we are not there anymore.
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Every decision about what’s worthwhile in this country has to do with its economic power.
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Did you manage during the day to do one thing you really wanted to do?
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