Huston Smith Quotes
If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
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The whole world is out of time!
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The I is the soul, which endures.
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If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
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I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.
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Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times.
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I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.
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I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
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If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
