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- 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 - )
- You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
- As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
- Diogenes
- Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
- Antonio Porchia, Voices
- There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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