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  • Muhammad Ali Friendship is not something you learn in school.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Mason Brown Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Salman Rushdie Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Katharine Whitehorn From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • Ben Horowitz From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Hilaire Belloc From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Bill Frist From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
    Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. I: A Slave Among Slaves
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alice Hamilton From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Barry Eisler From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Cass Sunstein From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Boz Scaggs From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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