Susanne Langer Quotes
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
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History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.
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The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.
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Certainly it is not so easy to pay something as it is to pay nothing, but it is easier to pay a large sum than it is to pay a larger one. And it is easier to pay any sum when we are able than it is to pay it before we are able.
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When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.
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Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.
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...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
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We score with the best of them. If we concentrate on defense like we do on offense, then we'll win a lot more ballgames.
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There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.
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If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.
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Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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Сommon sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
