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" Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. "

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" We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do. "

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" She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. "

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" I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother. "

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" A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. "

" I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all. "

" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "

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" We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either. "

" It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. "

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" I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating. "

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" 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. "

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" Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. "

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" A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. "

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" One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. "

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" 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. "

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