Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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At Mass General in January 2007, Dr. Loeffler's team attached a ring-shaped metal frame to my head with four pins. Then I went to the radiation center, where they strapped me to the treatment table and secured the head frame so that I couldn't move.
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In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.
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From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.
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I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.”
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I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.
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I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.
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You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
