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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

If you run from a leaking roof you'll end up with a flood.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

... there's been a lot of balls that have been pounding in that end zone.

The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.