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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)
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.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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)
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
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.

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