George H. Smith Quotes
It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
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I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.
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I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.
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I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
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All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.
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I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
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We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.
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If I am comfortable with my co-star, then that always shows in my performances.
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Arthur had heard Peggy say that she didn’t wish for more comfortable furniture, because if the chairs were softer, company would be inclined to stay longer.
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I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.
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A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
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So long as human beings can gain sufficient co-operation from some to enable them to dominate others, they will use the forms of law as one of their instruments. Wicked men will enact wicked rules which others will enforce. What surely is most needed in order to make men clear sighted in confronting the official abuse of power, is that they should preserve the sense that the certification of something as legally valid is not conclusive of the question of obedience, and that, however great the aura of majesty or authority which the official system may have, its demands must in the end be submitted to a moral scrutiny.
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Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
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It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.
