Susanne Langer Quotes
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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People trash talk me.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.
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When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
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It certainly will be if you are still around.
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We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
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It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.
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Browsing the OED is the idea of a perfect day for me.
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Augustine's description of Ambrose's silent reading (including the remark that he never read aloud) is the first definite instance recorded in Western literature.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
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I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.
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I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.
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Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.
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I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.
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We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.
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There were seven men, but just one language. They also moved as one and ate one meal a day and slept in the same bed and knew the same women with whom they'd made the same child. They worked for the same firm as the father. They were the future.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
