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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson
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When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers and
for a time they seem invincible,
but in the end, they always fall ... think of it, always.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The tyrant dies and his rule is over,
the martyr dies and his rule begins
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will
within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.
I do not add "within the limits of the law"
because law is often but the tyrant's will,
and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because
we don't know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.
It dies of illness and wounds;
it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
- Anais Nin
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow
The unpredictable and irregular happenings
of life's cycles are an inherent part of their nature.
There are droughts and heat waves, injuries occur.
The lion eats the zebra -
one is nourished, one dies - neither failed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith... must be enforced by reason...
when faith becomes blind it dies.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
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