Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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Writers are so important.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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With my YouTube videos, I used to edit a lot of my own videos, so I've gotten used to seeing myself on camera.
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. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
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At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.
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When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
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The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family.
