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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Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.
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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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Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."
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I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
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My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
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Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me.
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We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.
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So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentaliz ation is really artificial, and we should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them.
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
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If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
