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• I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

  Harlan Coben

  Real, Thinking, Together

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• Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Interesting Conversation, Perspective

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• In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

  Lady Gregory

  Years, People, Advice

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe

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• I love John Stamos. John's a really friendly, cool dude.

  Chord Overstreet

  "Chord Overstreet Tells Us the Insult He's OK With and His Favorite Glee Guest Star!" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Drama, Grief, Loss

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• The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries.

  James Monroe

  War, Taken, Rights

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• All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties; we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties.

  Isaac Asimov

  Space, People, Safety

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• All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Uplifting, Feelings

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• When you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want.....If you want to be happier - be happier. If you want to be more relaxed - relax. If you want more friends - be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.

  Cheri Huber

  Yoga, Simple, Contentment

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• In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Adversity, Hands

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Important, Occupy Movement

  "Networks Embrace Buffett's Call for Higher Taxes on 'Mega-Rich,' ABC Salivates Over Spending It". Article by Brent Baker, www.mrc.org. August 16, 2011.

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• Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Team

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• The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.

  Mitch McConnell

  Change, Long, President

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• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

  Ben Hogan

  Funny, Golf, Games

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• Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that category. I want an industrial world where people are allowed to make errors. Because human creativity has to do with being allowed to make errors. We want an error-friendly environment.

  Hans-Peter Durr

  Creativity, Acceptance, Technology

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• If anybody ever called our number, it would be picked up in less than 2 rings with a friendly voice answering, CD Baby. From 7 am to 10 pm, there was always somebody to pick up a call in 2 rings. No voice mail system; no routing to different departments. We treated our customers like our best friends. You don't route your best friend's call to an automated system!

  Derek Sivers

  Baby, Educational, Pms

  "Insight into CD Baby's Customer Support". Interview with Nithya Rajaram, supportbee.com. June 14, 2011.

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• Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Done, Loyal

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• Onstage I'm always different than offstage. I can be very friendly offstage, but onstage I will pull one trick after another on my competition to wipe him out, you know-because it's my living and I have to win. Franco is my best friend, but I will do as much as I can to make him look bad and make me look good.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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• We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work.

  Barton Seaver

  Ocean, Technology, Shrimp

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• In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Reality

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Lakes

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Marriage, New Year

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, Land, Leader

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sympathy, Men, Diversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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