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True music ... must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today. George Gershwin		Sunday Jan 18, 2026
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The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world. Harry Allen Overstreet

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	Harry Allen Overstreet
	(1875-1970) US psychologist, head of philosophy dept, College of City of NY 1911-39, author.

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I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.