Since Brooks Brothers is a 189-year-old company, there are plenty of references and inspirations I can draw from their archives and catalogs. The wearer of Black Fleece may not be all that different from mine, in that I imagine that it would be someone who is a true individual, and independent thinker. This is for both men and women.
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Related I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I believe that all men and women will be saved. PAT BUCKLEY When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or no... ERIC HOFFER As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from th... MARY E. PEARSON In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reco... SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC 19. Those who are the happiest are not necessarily those for whom life has been easiest. Emotional s... JAMES C. DOBSON It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for wome... WARREN FARRELL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I think the truth is black-and-white. NANCY GRACE What older men and younger women have in common is they are both suffering from different insecuriti... MARK BARROWCLIFFE I remember 'The Norfolk Journal and Guide,' which is a black newspaper that still exists, bu... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that... ELISABETH ELLIOT The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different;... DAVID RIESMAN We have the capacity to become a unique and special person unlike any other. Draw on your inner reso... ANGIE KARAN [J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened th... CHRISTINE DE PIZAN The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS The biggest thing I'm seeing - and I have to be careful what I say here - is that people are tir... SIMON SPURR Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Not that I disclaim the fullest responsibility for his opinions and for those of all my characters, ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW These mods made significant improvements to the cars – enough so that I changed my mind (another p... CHRISTINA ENGELA There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that ... BERYL MARKHAM There are plenty of roles for older women. They just don't happen to be the roles that normally carr... FIONNULA FLANAGAN You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY Our first job is to correct this because this is not Islam. We are going to show that women are not ... JAMILA SHANTI If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjo... FATEMA MERNISSI The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understan... WENDY SHALIT For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT Majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But -- like other precious, sacred things... P. J. O'ROURKE I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ... JONATHAN SWIFT It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this... STEVE ISRAEL Hell, I would be terrified if Hollywood showed up in my community and was going to pick a scab, ... ... CHARLIZE THERON I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve year... WILMA RUDOLPH I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say... LINDSEY GRAHAM Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, ... ABHIJIT NASKAR It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; a... C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The Tao [Way] that can be told of is not the eternal Tao;The name that can be named is not the etern... LAO TZU I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera. JULIE ORRINGER Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the... MATT BEVIN I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and difference... ALBERT BROOKS All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formati... QUENTIN BRYCE The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. 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CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. B... CHRISTINE DE PIZAN The promiscuity of men in both these cultures is generally more acceptable. The thinking is that's O... FRANK OLIVAS A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all li... SOPHOCLES The problem is that none of this is market-based. If individuals were responsible for insuring their... ANDREW COBURN For many men it is very difficult to accept and understand Infertility. They think only women can be... RAVI RANJAN GOSWAMI That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generati... JOHN A. WIDTSOE Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark... MURRAY N. ROTHBARD I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some... CORY BOOKER There are no rules for brothers to be so, and should their lives be as diverse as the life of a fish... KEN SALO Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely... DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p... DEBORAH KERR I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I This is a woman who didn’t want her viewpoints challenged, nor to see the views of the half of the... JERRY COYNE
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