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"We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely."
Chris Matthews
"We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely."
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
Thomas More
"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
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"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
George Washington
"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
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"Love is a friendship set to music."
Joseph Campbell
"Love is a friendship set to music."
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"The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion."
Harvey Milk
"The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion."
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"To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
Homer
"To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
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"Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg."
Sly Stone
"Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg."
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"As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy."
Jim Costa
"As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy."
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"Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye."
Ouida
"Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye."
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"These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths."
Mercedes Lackey
"These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths."
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"Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals."
Cynthia Heimel
"Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals."
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"The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy."
Natan Sharansky
"The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy."
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"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?"
Angelina Grimke
"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?"
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"I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?""It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?""It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...."
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"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
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"A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview."
Donald E. Westlake
"A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview."
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"Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend."
William Feather
"Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend."
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"We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other."
Black Kettle
"We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other."
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"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
Virginia Woolf
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
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"When my little group get together, if we disagree about something, we can sort it out. Example: Mohona Hossain hates Divargiit Singh. Hates all his movies. Hates him with a passion. She likes that other fool with the eyelashes like a lady! But we compromise. Never once have I burned a single video of hers."
Zadie Smith
"When my little group get together, if we disagree about something, we can sort it out. Example: Mohona Hossain hates Divargiit Singh. Hates all his movies. Hates him with a passion. She likes that other fool with the eyelashes like a lady! But we compromise. Never once have I burned a single video of hers."
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"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
George Santayana
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
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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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"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."
Giotto di Bondone
"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."
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"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."
Samuel Pepys
"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."
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"'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me."
Michael Irvin
"'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me."
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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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"In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide."
George Crabbe
"In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide."
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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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"(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family?"
Sherman Alexie
"(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family?"
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"If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff."
Neil LaBute
"If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff."
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Mark Twain
"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
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"Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship."
Black Kettle
"Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship."
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"I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian."
James Laughlin
"I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian."
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"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."
Melody Beattie
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."
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"These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way."
Jonathan Kellerman
"These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way."
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"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
William Butler Yeats
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
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"I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community."
Dominique de Villepin
"I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community."
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"I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot."
Arto Lindsay
"I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot."
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"I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine."
Shirley Booth
"I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine."
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"Friends are thieves of time."
Francis Bacon
"Friends are thieves of time."
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"I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk."
Larry Holmes
"I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk."
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"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."
August Strindberg
"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."
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"I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey."
Satish Kumar
"I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey."
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"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"
Emily Bronte
"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"
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"I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing."
Melissa Leo
"I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing."
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"When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss."
Margaret Mahy
"When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss."
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"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares."
Henri Nouwen
"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares."
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"The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends."
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"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young."
Mary Schmich
"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young."
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"My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things."
Dante Hall
"My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things."
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