Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #money

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
#proverbs #african-proverbs

I'm a drama nerd. ~Luke Kirby
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
#quotes #james-thurber #truth #human

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
#quotes #nguyen-cao-ky #peace #united-states

That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
#quotes #mark-webber #movies

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
#quotes #emily-watson #relationship #surprise

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
#quotes #thomas-reid #philosophy #errors

Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #debt

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
#quotes #william-osler #human #achievement

"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
#quotes #iamblichus #justice

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
#quotes #etty-hillesum #chance

If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
#quotes #geraldine-brooks #books #past

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
#quotes #jim-palmer #team #success

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
#quotes #ryszard-kapuscinski #patriotism #power #russia #poland

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
#quotes #galileo-galilei #heaven