Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.
Lewis B. Smedes
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
Floyd Skloot
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
Zach Anner
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
Octavio Paz
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
Ralph Lauren
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Maajid Nawaz
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao Tzu
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
K. D. Lang
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
Raghav Bahl
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
E. Franklin Frazier
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.
Imre Kertesz
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
Paloma Faith
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
Antonio Machado
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
Tamer Hassan
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Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
Kathie Lee Gifford
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Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.
Lewis B. Smedes
