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" When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. "

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" Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship. "

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" My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody. "

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" It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. "

" Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen. "

" I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. "

" The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many. "

" And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. "

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" Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. "

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" Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. "

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" Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. "

" I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly. "

" In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. "

" It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive, that's their passion... I think that's what makes your life meaningful, that's what fills your own heart and that's what gives you purpose. "

" Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones. "

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" One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. "

" We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other. "

" Matching tattoos don't ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship. "

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