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"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."
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"I don't have any blonde friends."
Gina Gershon
"I don't have any blonde friends."
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"I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness."
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
"I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness."
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"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart."
Cesar Chavez
"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart."
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"What good is a friend if you can't make an enemy of him?"
William Gillette
"What good is a friend if you can't make an enemy of him?"
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"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
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"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."
Kenneth Branagh
"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."
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"No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise."
Lewis Carroll
"No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise."
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"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
Socrates
"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
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"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."
Georg Brandes
"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."
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"Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%."
Mike Epps
"Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%."
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"The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends."
Kathy Griffin
"The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends."
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"Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations."
Ernie Banks
"Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations."
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"I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week."
Andrea Jung
"I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week."
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"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
Plutarch
"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
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"Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing."
Jean de La Fontaine
"Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing."
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"Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president."
Karen Hughes
"Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president."
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"I like girls who don't mind that I hang out with my friends."
Michael Rosenbaum
"I like girls who don't mind that I hang out with my friends."
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"I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more."
Black Kettle
"I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more."
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"I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real."
Jonathan Bennett
"I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real."
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"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."
William E. Gladstone
"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."
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"I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist."
Lynda Barry
"I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist."
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"Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton."
Margaret Cavendish
"Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton."
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"For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends."
Jim Carrey
"For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends."
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"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."
Ella Maillart
"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."
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"For there is no such thing: Right person at the right time! Instead with the right team, Embrace Time that simply flies.Never when meeting old friends Does time really pass by?In trust and truth they make amends So Time they can really defy. Hence, no one denies then: In all it revitalizes. Principled friendship never dies!"
Ana Claudia Antunes
"For there is no such thing: Right person at the right time! Instead with the right team, Embrace Time that simply flies.Never when meeting old friends Does time really pass by?In trust and truth they make amends So Time they can really defy. Hence, no one denies then: In all it revitalizes. Principled friendship never dies!"
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"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee."
Tacitus
"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee."
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"If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy."
Michael Phelps
"If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy."
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"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."
Sammy Davis, Jr.
"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."
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"When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over."
John Lone
"When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over."
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"Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?"
Dennis Prager
"Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?"
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"Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher."
Joe Manchin
"Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher."
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"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."
Henry Ward Beecher
"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."
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"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone."
Maxwell Maltz
"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone."
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"Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight."
H. G. Bohn
"Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight."
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"Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company."
Elizabeth I
"Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company."
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"I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States."
Richard Lugar
"I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States."
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"Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend."
Peter Asher
"Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend."
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"The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story."
Donna Tartt
"The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story."
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"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault."
Thomas Fuller
"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault."
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"Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life."
Titus Maccius Plautus
"Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life."
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"If a friend to me is friend to all then a friend to all is not a friend to me."
Santosh Kalwar
"If a friend to me is friend to all then a friend to all is not a friend to me."
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"The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom."
Clarence Darrow
"The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom."
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"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."
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"The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness."
Ovid
"The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness."
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"It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it."
James Bovard
"It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it."
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"It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work."
Amartya Sen
"It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work."
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"My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time."
George Weinberg
"My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time."
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"Maybe we should go on lots of double dates, Cath said, "and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time."Pfft, Levi said, "I'm picking out my own dress."
Rainbow Rowell
"Maybe we should go on lots of double dates, Cath said, "and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time."Pfft, Levi said, "I'm picking out my own dress."
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"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."
John Gay
"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."
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