Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Never settle for second when first is available
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.
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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
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She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.
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You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."
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And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!
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The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.
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Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .
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Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.
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The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
