“ Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! ”
- Drew Barrymore- Copy
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“ I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly. ”
- William Stafford- Copy
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“ All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish. ”
- Aldo Leopold- Copy
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“ In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. ”
- Nathaniel Branden- Copy
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“ Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves. ”
- Johann Gottfried Von Herder- Copy
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“ We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. ”
- Virginia Satir- Copy
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“ Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run. ”
- Edward Hoagland- Copy
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“ Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island. ”
- Gerry Adams- Copy
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“ During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. ”
- Florence King- Copy
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“ More affectionate than a kiss is a well done hug in someone that you love. Have you ever notice how I can give delicious hugs? ”
- Carmen Miranda- Copy
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“ Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
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“ You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower. ”
- P.G. Wodehouse- Copy
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“ My father was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since. ”
- Linda Ellerbee- Copy
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“ Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them. ”
- Natalie Portman- Copy
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“ Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream. ”
- John S. Bonnell- Copy
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“ One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others. ”
- Alexander Smith- Copy
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“ The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug : Heaven knows they need it. ”
- Princess Diana- Copy
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“ The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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