Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.
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“And I,” declared the SawHorse, filling in an awkward pause, “am only remarkable because I can't help it.”
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The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.
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I prefer to live in South Africa because it's a wonderful country; because I've been there for 300 years.
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Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.
