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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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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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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Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.
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Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
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My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.
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If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive.
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Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
