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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#avoid #brought #defend #duty #endeavor

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#executive #had #man #perform #place

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students. ↗

— Warren Jeffs

#black #down #emphasize #enjoy #enjoying

I get 'voluptuous' a lot, or 'shapely,' but the fact is that as you get older you learn to embrace your body type. I wasn't able to do that until I was at least 23. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#body #embrace #fact #get #i

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#fiction #ironically #marketplace #must #nonfiction

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#dream #entertain #fiction #form #ideas

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#also #america #exotic #homesick #know

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ↗

— St. Jerome

#eyes #face #heart #mind #mirror

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#destructive #his #living #man #manhood

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. ↗

— Joan Jett

#being #being happy #concentrating #happy #having