Huston Smith Quotes
We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
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I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.
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Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.
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The lawlessness that has swept the country must stop.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come...
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The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.
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Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.
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I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.
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He has been waiting for us, waiting in vain, and His fatherly heart was filled with grief. When He then sought to call us home through chastenings, we rebelled against Him and His actions and again refused to come home to the Father. What else should He do with us?
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We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.
