F. LaGard Smith Quotes
In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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At heart, American conservatives like myself are believers in the Constitution. We believe that the principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring, and that to whatever extent we deviate from them we put our liberties at risk. Our views are consistent because we believe in absolute truths and the essential soundness, even righteousness, of the Founder's vision of government.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.
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I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.
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In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.
