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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.
– Pope Benedict XVI
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To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.
– Christopher Knight
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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
– Sallust
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
– Cornelia Otis Skinner
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
– William Hazlitt
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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
– Juan Antonio Samaranch
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Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
– Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.
– Gerard Arpey
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Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
– Trey Anastasio
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There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.
– Carol Alt
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
– Chanakya
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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.
– Kenny Rogers
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
– William Hazlitt
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The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.
– Jose Ramos-Horta
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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?
– Eugene Kennedy
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The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
– James Whistler
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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 joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
– Bradley Chicho
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The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.
– Atifete Jahjaga
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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
– Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
– Galina Vishnevskaya
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The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
– Bradley Chicho
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
– Sallust
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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.
– Armistead Maupin
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
– Samuel Johnson
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The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
– Michelle Obama
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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
– David Storey
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
– William Hazlitt
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
– Mao Zedong
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The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
– Barack Obama
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The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
– Jasmine Guy
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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
– William Shenstone
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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
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That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
– Randy West
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Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
– Sting
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Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
– Lauren Conrad
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So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
– John Tyler
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Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
– Adam Sandler
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Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
– Steven Van Zandt
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
– Greg Bear
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Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
– Bradley Chicho
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
– Oliver Goldsmith
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
– Aristotle
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People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.
– Isabel Lucas
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People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
– Lisa See
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People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.
– Jeff Ross
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
– Thomas Jefferson
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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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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
– Dennis Prager
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Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
– Juan Antonio Samaranch
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Opposition is true friendship.
– William Blake
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One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
– Marcelene Cox
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
– Dan Fouts
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
– Vicente Fox
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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
– Charles de Lint
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Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
– Lucan
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
– Madeleine Albright
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
– Robert Southey
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Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
– Eleanor Robson Belmont
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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
– Johann Kaspar Lavater
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My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
– Julie Burchill
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My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
– Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
– Anne Lamott
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My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
– Tom Lehrer
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My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
– Enrique Iglesias
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My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
– Georg Brandes
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
– Malcolm Arnold
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
– Samuel Richardson
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.
– Sydney Smith
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Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
– Ernie Banks
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
– Anton Chekhov
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Love is a friendship set to music.
– Joseph Campbell
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Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
– James Joyce
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Love and friendship exclude each other.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
– Eustace Budgell
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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.
– Shimon Peres
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
– Khalil Gibran
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It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
– James F. Byrnes
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It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
– Gilbert Parker
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It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
– Theophile Gautier
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It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
– Jennifer Beals
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India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.
– Pratibha Patil
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In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
– Ernst Mayr
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In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.
– Tony Garza
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
– Major Taylor
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
– Victoria Justice
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
– Michel de Montaigne
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If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
– Eve Arnold
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If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
– Marie de France
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
– Samuel Johnson
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I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
– Courteney Cox
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I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
– Warren Christopher
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