Jack Kingston Quotes
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.
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I would say I am viewed as the oldest teenager in my family because they say I never grow old. I mean, I am stern in my own way - I am not one to let children run over me - but I am very, very good with children, and I can usually get what I want out of them.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
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War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
