Susanne Langer Quotes
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!
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People follow me because I am just a normal person, and they can relate to me.
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One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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Are we not still guilty, if to a less violent degree, of recklessness, of improvidence with regard to our future and our humanity? War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
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Here in America, our use of time is not harmonious with humanity's better spirit.
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To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
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We're all different; we all have our ways of understanding ourselves and the way we live our lives and struggle with our humanity.
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Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity.
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I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.
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We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be drowned out by the chatter of the mind and the pressure of day-to-day events. But if we quiet down the mind, we can begin to hear what we're not paying attention to. We can find out what's right for us.
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Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
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Nothing heals the past like time. And they can’t steal the love you’re born to find.
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The thought of a man being the murderer of his own daughter in the Twin Peaks was anathema to me. At the time, I had a 2-year-old daughter of my own, and that possibility really turned me off. I was praying that I wouldn't be the one.
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Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
