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A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house! — Unknown Author
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and… — William Barclay
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. — Mahatma Gandhi
But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man! — Charles Alexander Eastman
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. — Mary Schmich
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until… — William Banting
There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get… — Connie Francis
We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true. — Thomas Gilovich
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is… — Freya Stark
True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart. — Paulo Coelho
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing… — Shelby Steele
[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and… — James Madison
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots… — Robert Walpole
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest. — Aristotle
True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before. — David Gerrold
I have faith that if we caught hold of God's living candle on that truth and went out into the world-I don't care [what vocation]… — Truman G. Madsen
Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of… — Walter Raleigh
Love should not be a guessing game. In fact, it shouldn't be a game at all. One should lay all the cards on the table,… — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
True love is not giving power to the other person, but instead is empowering you to make that person happy. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio… — Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. — Eric Hoffer
Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary;… — Thomas a Kempis

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