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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I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.
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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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He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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.
