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" Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. "
Aristotle
Slow
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Friendship
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" Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. "
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" The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people. "
Eamon de Valera
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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. "
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" I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody. "
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" Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success. "
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" Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. "
William Glasser
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" The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. "
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" Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far. "
Marie Antoinette
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" Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. "
Ann Landers
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" The secret to humor is surprise. "
Aristotle
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Surprise
Secret
" The key to doing 'Harold and Kumar' movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar's relationship and friendship believable, and we don't actually work on being that funny. "
John Cho
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Friendship
Funny
" The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. "
Aristotle
Community
Control
Political
" Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. "
Aristotle
Prosperity
Adversity
Education
" When you start a relationship, there's part of the friendship that dies - you can never go back. "
Emily Bett Rickards
Start
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Go
" The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. "
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New York
" China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. "
Hu Jintao
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" Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. "
Aristotle
Other
Friends
Choose
" There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. "
Chanakya
Truth
Friendship
Without
" If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt. "
Douglas Brinkley
Friendship
Believe
Intelligence
" The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. "
Aristotle
Dead
Educated
Living
" It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. "
Marlene Dietrich
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" But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right. "
Ernie Banks
Right
Friendship
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" A friend is what the heart needs all the time. "
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" I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work. "
Paul Simon
Happy
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" It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. "
Aristotle
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Other
" One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship. "
Jacqueline Leo
You
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" I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people. "
Frankie Valli
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" There's really not much friendship between the girls on tour. There's so much rivalry and jealousy, so everyone just hangs out in their own camp. In the locker room and players' lounge, you can feel the jealousy. "
Ana Ivanovic
You
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" Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. "
Thomas Jefferson
Peace
Friendship
Commerce