Huston Smith Quotes
Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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A mom has to be ready for anything.
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I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess
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When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
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A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
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I'm very excited. The 12-year-old me is kicking myself.
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He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods.
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We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.
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Recently I have noticed football banners representing other clubs, such as Derby and Leeds, appearing.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
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Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.
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All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
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Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
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Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.
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Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.
