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"At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving."
Woodrow Wilson
"At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving."
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"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."
Mortimer Adler
"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."
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"Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends."
Sydney Schanberg
"Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends."
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"Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't."
Ruby Wax
"Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't."
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"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."
Michel de Montaigne
"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."
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"What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt."
Tom Allen
"What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt."
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"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."
Joseph Joubert
"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."
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"Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might."
Merle Shain
"Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might."
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"To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
"To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there."
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"William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still."
Glenn Ford
"William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still."
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"More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion."
Harvey Milk
"More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion."
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"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."
Publilius Syrus
"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."
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"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."
William Shenstone
"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."
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"There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends."
Ogden Nash
"There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends."
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"I have always done films with friends rather than strangers."
Sanjay Dutt
"I have always done films with friends rather than strangers."
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"You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog."
Carl Icahn
"You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog."
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"I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with."
Paul Kane
"I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with."
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"I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often."
Roy Jenkins
"I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often."
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"Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?"
Orlando Jones
"Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?"
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"I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger."
Hal Sutton
"I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger."
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"I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here."
S. E. Hinton
"I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here."
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"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
Euripides
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
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"Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane."
Abraham Pais
"Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane."
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"When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many."
Julius Erving
"When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many."
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"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
Elbert Hubbard
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
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"I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies."
Leslie Fiedler
"I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies."
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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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"They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other."
Henry Walter Bates
"They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other."
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"Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend."
John W. Snow
"Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend."
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"Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore."
Olga Korbut
"Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore."
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"Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer."
Mary Schmich
"Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer."
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"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."
John Singer Sargent
"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."
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"How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing."
Hilary Mantel
"How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing."
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"Hang on, did you just call me Angel?' I asked.'If I did?''I don't like it.'He grinned. 'It stays, Angel."
Becca Fitzpatrick
"Hang on, did you just call me Angel?' I asked.'If I did?''I don't like it.'He grinned. 'It stays, Angel."
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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 owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress."
Andre Gide
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress."
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"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it."
Edward Carpenter
"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it."
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"Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction."
John Boehner
"Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction."
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"I'm still single, but me and Lauren are really really really close friends."
Scotty McCreery
"I'm still single, but me and Lauren are really really really close friends."
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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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"She climbs inside the car and they leave, and I just stand there watching them because I don't know that I've ever had a friend like her in my whole life. Maybe it's the wine. I don't know, but I love today. Everything about it. I especially love how Ryle looks, leaning against my car, watching me."You're really beautiful when you're happy."
Colleen Hoover
"She climbs inside the car and they leave, and I just stand there watching them because I don't know that I've ever had a friend like her in my whole life. Maybe it's the wine. I don't know, but I love today. Everything about it. I especially love how Ryle looks, leaning against my car, watching me."You're really beautiful when you're happy."
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"Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends."
Rebecca McNutt
"Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends."
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"We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition."
Joan Blades
"We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition."
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"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."
Nicholson Baker
"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."
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"Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can't fight your way out of as easily."
Ally Condie
"Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can't fight your way out of as easily."
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"And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were."
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"When my female friends are leftBy horrid spouses and lovers,I commiserate. I send gifts-Powwow songs and poems- and wonderWhy my gorgeous friends cannot findSomeone who knows them as I do.Is the whole world dead and blind?I tell my friends, "I'd marry youTomorrow. I think I'm engagedTo thirty-six women, my harem:Platonic, bookish, and enraged.I love them! But it would scare them-No, of course, they already knowThat I can be just one more boy,A toy warrior who explodesInto silence and warpaths with joy."
Sherman Alexie
"When my female friends are leftBy horrid spouses and lovers,I commiserate. I send gifts-Powwow songs and poems- and wonderWhy my gorgeous friends cannot findSomeone who knows them as I do.Is the whole world dead and blind?I tell my friends, "I'd marry youTomorrow. I think I'm engagedTo thirty-six women, my harem:Platonic, bookish, and enraged.I love them! But it would scare them-No, of course, they already knowThat I can be just one more boy,A toy warrior who explodesInto silence and warpaths with joy."
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"People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold."
Bernhard Langer
"People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold."
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"Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies."
Richard Le Gallienne
"Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies."
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"Friends might share clothes and chocolate, but they must share books. Just like you share the same stars, share the same books and you'll never be apart."
Toni Sorenson
"Friends might share clothes and chocolate, but they must share books. Just like you share the same stars, share the same books and you'll never be apart."
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