H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.
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My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
