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" My friends are my estate. "

Emily Dickinson

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" Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II. "

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" The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. "

Charles de Lint

" I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you. "

" Where thou art, that is home. "

Emily Dickinson

" Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship. "

" Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. "

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" The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? "

" Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned. "

" I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. "

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" What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. "

" It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. "

" Friendship is the most important thing of all. "

" One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. "

" My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential. "

" I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so 'in it,' you couldn't even call it an art; it's such embroilment. With a friendship, you can choose a little bit more how to behave. You can be guided more. "

" Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. "

Oliver Goldsmith

" Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. "

Eustace Budgell

" We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. "

" Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women. "

" I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. "

Charles R. Swindoll

" I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world. "

" How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! "

Emily Dickinson

" My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism. "

" A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. "

" I know Donald Trump. I've met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president. "

" Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. "

Emily Dickinson

" It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. "

Henry Ward Beecher