Leonard Shlain Quotes
Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.
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I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.
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A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
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Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.
