Huston Smith Quotes
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
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To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.
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There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.
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I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
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Sex stops when you pull up your pants, Love never lets you go.
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To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!
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A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.
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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
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Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith.
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Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.
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This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
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The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.
