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- Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
- Milton R. Sapirstein
- Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
- Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Twilight of the Idols (1888).
- It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), Sherlock Holmes in "The Dancing Men"
- Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
- De La Rochefoucauld.
- Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
- Richard Bach
- Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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