"When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade."

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Source : "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November, 1997.

Huston Smith

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“I like to look at the glass half full.”
“Asia is the market and the location where production is inexpensive. The technological expertise and specialist knowledge comes from the industrialized world.”
“The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.”
“Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.”

Source : "Some Notes on Workers' Education" by A. J. Muste, first published in "New International", Volume 2, No. 7 (pp. 225-227), www.marxists.org. December 1935.
“I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.”

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“A lot of denim companies deal with what the shoes of the season are going to look like, and proportions to what people are wearing on top. If girls are wearing big sweatshirts they'll want a skinnier jean, and if they're wearing tight tops they'll want a wider jean. You have to play in the playground of what's happening culturally.”
“You can't mobilize people and connect with them authentically when they can't see the true you.”

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“The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands of man; for the geological record is the work of God.”

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