Huston Smith Quotes
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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I think the movie Light of the World will help a lot of pastors. It should get a lot of people sold-uh, saved.
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Let's try common sense. A novel concept.
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Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for its work in the world, and that serious study of it can and should become one of the places where, and the means by which, heaven and earth interlock and God's future purposes arrive in the present.
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I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
