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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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.
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Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.
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The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.
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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.
