There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer (~700 BC), The Odyssey
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Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.
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'The first public protest against cruelty to animals, per Toynbee, a historian, was in 55 BC by the Roman people, to save the life of an elephant.'
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Less than ten per cent of cancer research funding goes to early detection. Our emphasis is on collaboration across technologies and institutions. We have assembled some of the world's leading researchers, including Dr. Brad Nelson from the BC Cancer Agency, to attack early detection in a new collaborative approach.
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'Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
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'Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.
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It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
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In the meantime, we should demand that no B.C. elections take place for the Senate until we are properly recognized as a full-fledged region of this country.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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