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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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
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Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
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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.
