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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...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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You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.
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What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.
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Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.
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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.
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Сommon sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.