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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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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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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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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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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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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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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There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
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ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.
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When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
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The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.
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It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
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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.
