Huston Smith Quotes
As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Huston Smith
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
W. Somerset Maugham
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They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.
Washington Irving
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I've had every known chemical-cocaine, booze-and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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'It's kind of a dream come true, because to me fashion is not just the clothes, it's all the accoutrements that go with it...
Anna Sui
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.
CeeLo Green
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In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
David Liss
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.
Sigmund Freud
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Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
Brendon Urie
Panic! at the Disco
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As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Huston Smith
