Only 1 in 10,000 people have absolute or “perfect” pitch, the ability to hear a tone and tell what note it is. This unusual ability is acquired early in life, typically learned during training at about four to six years of age, and there are no records of adults acquiring the ability. But a new study shows that people who […]
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“When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing.” – Saint Francis of Assisi
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“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.” – John D. MacDonald
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
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“There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” – Sir Ranulph Fiennes
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DAWN It shuffled across the savannah Toward shade from the rising sun. In each hand it carried banana Held firm by opposing thumb. An ape by all rights of appearance, Yet upright its ambling gait. To primate behavior adherence Except little quirk of late. Whenever would pass by some water, It often would stop to stare. […]
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