After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Aldous Huxley

Music is the distillation of emotion. It is the parchment by which sentiment is laid, its lyrics the aphorisms of the history of the heart, and the melody and tune the embellishment of this narrative. To expound by way of music is as emotional as it is terse. Music is able to encompass, explain, embrace and empower the human condition into the medium of art. It unfolds with intent, and directs without restraint.

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Our experience of culture is dependent on various parameters. But for a culture to be distinctly experienced, a delineation that cannot be empirically qualified, the greater challenge is establishing the sense of identity of a culture, or its society. For a culture to be a living, breathing, evolving one, its proponents or the population that it encompasses must find association with it. To associate then is to claim; to know without doubt or hesitation, ambiguity or irreverence, that this consciousness is the rhythm that defines their beat.

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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.
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Abraham Lincoln


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Free will is a double-edged sword. It has the capacity, in the same breadth and intensity, to create order and unity as it does bigotry and secernment. To choose one over the latter precludes a cognizance beyond simply being either tolerant or discretionary. In the context of free will, discretion in its essential form cannot exist without acceptance. They are antithetical concepts of one another, sides of the same coin of the human consciousness. It is in our responsible and mindful methods that both can be actualized for the most positive and humane of outcomes.

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