#cal

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#accepted #beyond #care #costs #covered

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#cause #convincingly #each #enough #everyone

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#contact #direct #direct contact #feel #i

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#best #classical #classical music #does #i

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#architecture #classical #classical music #does #each

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. ↗

— Norman Thomas

#good life #hold #life #loyalties #right

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#balance #be real #me #metaphysical #nuclear

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#completely #contrived #could #developed #each

God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong. ↗

— Melissa Coleman

#mystical #spiritual #spirituality #universe #dreams

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. ↗

— Felix Adler

#be real #ceaseless #efforts #engaged #ethical