#act

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. ↗

— Huston Smith

#dead #exclusively #facts #full #hand

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#be real #field #gathered #his #humanity

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#character #commonplace #english #insular #joke

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#affected #between #character #course #differences

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. ↗

— Huston Smith

#am #assumed #form #god #had

I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know. ↗

— Huston Smith

#assumed #believes #bush #conflict #day

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith. ↗

— Huston Smith

#could #done #each #eight #faith

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have? ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#capabilities #cloth #cut #fact #finances

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#factor #kids #massive #meant #money

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#become #britain #cities #communities #completely