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Friendship Quotes
"Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends."
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"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."
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"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
65
"Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend."
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"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
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"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
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"A heart makes a good home for the friend."
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"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."
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"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."
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"Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies."
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"If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest."
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"Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades."
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"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations."
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"It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company."
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"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
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"Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction."
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"By being friends with all, we are not alone."
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"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship."
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"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
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"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
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"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."
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"We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye."
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"To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world."
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"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
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"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
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"Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone."
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"As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend."
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"Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless."
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"But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!"
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"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!"
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"We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends."
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"When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row."
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"The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach."
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"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."
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"I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend."
25
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
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"Even the strongest man needs friends."
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"But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost."
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"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
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"If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?"
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"Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred."
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"If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend."
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"I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures."
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"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
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"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
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"Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us."
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"Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield."
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