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Alan Watts Quotes

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Watts

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: english
Birth: January 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973

Topics

History People Universe America Way

We are as good judges of our interest and safety, and the means of preserving them, as the non-slaveholding States are of theirs, and rather better than they can be of ours.

John C. Calhoun

Good Safety Better Judges Interest

Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.

Jenny Lewis

Grow Interesting You Sometimes Way

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

Matt Cartwright

Good Me Political You I Can Want

There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.

Sonita Alizadeh

Change Hope Great Step Suffering

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

Roy H. Williams

Light Gravity Strings Different Than

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Michael Mandelbaum

Music Sports Football Architecture

From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control.

Lou Barlow

Control Guitar Someone Play Young

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

Jonathan Ames

New York Parents World Friends Look

What I would say is that if someone faces discrimination, they should never back down. They should be self-confident and educate others not to have such an attitude.

Punit Renjen

Attitude Someone Discrimination Down

My job is making irrational people do rational things.

Scooter Braun

Job People Things Rational Making

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

Thomas Keneally

Religion Sick Medicine Strong Sense

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.

Timothy Murphy

Life Family Quality Death Healthcare