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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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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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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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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Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
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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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An unsolicited sales pitch may be part of a fraudulent investment scheme. Exercise extreme caution if you receive an unsolicited communication - meaning you didn't ask for it and don't know the sender - about an investment opportunity.
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There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
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My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
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It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
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My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used to speak Arabic before that, but Tunisian Arabic dialect. Step by step, I discovered calligraphy. I painted before and I just brought the calligraphy into my artwork. That's how everything started. The funny thing is the fact that going back to my roots made me feel French.
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Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.
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I'm not really tough.
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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.
