Huston Smith Quotes
...primal people see the objects of this world not or not only as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
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For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them!
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The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.
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I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.
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Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.
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I've had an amazing career.
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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.
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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold along the shores of Japan returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.
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...primal people see the objects of this world not or not only as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
