"When I meet a new person, I am……" — Haniel Long
"When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity."
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Haniel Long
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17 Quotes by Haniel Long
Haniel Long has 17 quotes on this site.
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When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try…
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All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our…
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And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun…
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the…
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as…
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of…
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To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a…
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A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one…
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and…
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely…
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
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It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little…
— James Caan
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I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a…
— Nicolas Cage
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
— Samuel Alexander
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
— Maya Angelou
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Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful…
— Patricia Churchland
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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult…
— John O'Donohue
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself…
— Ernst Haeckel
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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