Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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My heart aches watching Donald Trump... pouring his heart out... How can anyone doubt his sincerity?
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.
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My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
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In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.
