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- A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
- Chinese proverb
- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
- Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799)
- The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
- Chinese proverb
- A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
- It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
- A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
- Dean Koontz
- Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
- Karl Menninger
- You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
- Barbara Bush (1925 - )
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