Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.

Lewis B. Smedes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 20, 1921 - December 19, 2002

Topics

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Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Stephen Leacock

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It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.

Soccer Mommy

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I'm not athletic.

Sofia Vergara

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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Robin Morgan

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Television speeded everything up.

Ruth Handler

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Uber is redefining the transportation industry now; Airbnb is doing it to the hotel industry. You can expect that to happen in every single industry.

Masayoshi Son

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Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment.

Roy Blunt

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Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Joyce Meyer

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I'm always surrounded by good-looking guys, like Zac Efron, so I have to be with someone who's not going to get jealous about any of that, or when I'm kissing somebody in a scene.

Ashley Tisdale

JealousSomeoneGood-LookingAlways

We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin.

Priyamvada Natarajan

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I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their problems.

Seinabo Sey

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Well there are those that you wield and those that you join.

Richard Murdoch

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