Chris Shays Quotes
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I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
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To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.
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People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.
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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.
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The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.
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All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
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As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.
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Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.
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I have a fairly well known name, so for me to do things my way is not that hard.
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We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
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Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.
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I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.
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I think that the issue here is a fundamental fairness in having a hearing so that these issues can be explored and concerns can be raised.
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I think it's time to focus exclusively on this rough ride issue to evoke change here, to change the longstanding custom of handing out street justice.
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'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans!
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected.
