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Beethoven As A Deep Massage

a: Beethoven ~
b: a deep massage

What: "Beethoven is like a deep massage. Mozart is like a light massage with the fingertips." "I've never liked Vivaldi" was one of her dicta, expatiating further by adding, "His music is twiddly."

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Writer: Helen Howe
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Date: Nov 13 2011 9:37 PM


Layers?

a: Leaf spring ~
b: a layer of metal bars

What: "and a leaf spring is like a layer of metal bars that act as a spring, you'd see them on utes n old cars.. "

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Writer: chr1S
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Date: Oct 3 2013 1:53 PM



a: wealth ~
b: moving dirt

What:

"Building wealth is like moving dirt. A person who earns $50,000 moves dirt by the shovelful. Someone who earns $100,000 or more drives a bulldozer."


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Writer: Landon Loveall
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Date: Jan 15 2014 7:01 PM



a: Hippocampus ~
b: a whiteboard

What:

"A simplified analogy might be that the hippocampus is like a whiteboard where you can write up short-term memories," Edwards says. "And then these are either converted to long-term memories or forgotten, similar to erasing the whiteboard."


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Writer: Jeffrey Edwards
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Feb 21 2014 4:32 PM



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