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" To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. "

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" The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that? "

" I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case. "

" I think I'd probably be really good friends with Hulk Hogan. I think we'd get along, and I'd, like, chill him out because he'd be all rambunctious and rowdy, and I'd be like, 'Chill out, Hulk Hogan. Everything will be okay.' And he'd be like, 'Thanks, Ron.' And then we'd form a friendship. "

" As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future. "

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" In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions. "

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" Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego. "

" A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships. "

" There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams. "

Barack Obama

" That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage. "

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" Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way. "

" The friendship that can cease has never been real. "

" There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Welcome

Morning

" Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. "

" A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' "

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" It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. "

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" On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression. "

" 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. "

Jessye Norman

Reading

Support

" Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America? "

Barack Obama

" Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. "

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" A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. "

" When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin. "

" The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. "

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" Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided. "

" Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime. "

Barack Obama

" Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. "

Austin O'Malley

Old

You

" If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. "

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" I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned. "

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" But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. "

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" Friends are the siblings God never gave us. "

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Never