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"I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important."
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"True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks."
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"To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony."
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"A true friend is a reflection of yourself."
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"Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline.I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session."
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"I to myself am dearer than a friend."
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"One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine."
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"A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times."
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"Maybe Lindsay and I are best friends and we hate each other, both. Maybe I'm only one math class away from being a slut like Anna Cartullo. Maybe I am like her, deep down. Maybe we all are: just one lunch period away from eating alone in the bathroom. I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision."
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"Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it."
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"If you fulfill God's will, then God will always be your friend."
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"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."
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"I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years."
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"As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us."
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"When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values."
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"I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education."
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"You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart."
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"Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm."
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"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it."
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"My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale."
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"They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought."
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