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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You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.
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I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.
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Responsibility is the choice we make to respond with care.
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After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea.
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People say they get a warmness from me.
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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.
