Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.

Lewis B. Smedes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

Jim Cantalupo

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Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.

Jerry Della Femina

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I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

John Hodgman

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I've worked really hard to bring something more to 'pretty girl' roles over the years. I consider it a challenge.

Amber Heard

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I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

Sonia Sotomayor

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I don't pull punches at all, and I write my material for adults. But if kids like it, they can come watch it. I'll never change anything about what I do for anyone. I kind of think that's why kids like me. If you're a teenager, and there's someone onstage talking to you like an adult, that's good.

Trixie Mattel

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I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

Tony Abbott

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In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

Chow Yun-Fat

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I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!

Chris Young

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The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.

Arleigh Burke

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I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

Sydney Schanberg

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New Mexico's agricultural economy is primarily composed of dairy and range livestock production.

Susana Martinez

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