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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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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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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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
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To do de-Baathification without an agreed process of reconciliation threw tens of thousands of people out of their jobs, out of their homes, out of their future, and even robbed them of their position in society.
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The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.
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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.
