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• In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

  Thomas Kyd

  Time, Pain, Fall

  c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

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• Marketers... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal is to drive preference or justify a price premium, the environmental benefit needs to be conveyed.

  Scott Young

  Business, Appreciate, Goal

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• May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.

  Max Ehrmann

  Depression, World, May

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.11, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language
  barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

  Samuel Chamberlain

  Art, Food, People

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• Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you.

  Jimmy Carter

  Forgiveness, Anger, Mean

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• Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?" For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?" But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine they're fine, thank you.

  Julia Quinn

  Heart, Interesting, Topics

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• Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

  Jane Austen

  Love, Missing, Age

  Jane Austen (2004). “Mansfield Park”, p.163, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Party, Past, Years

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?

  Pascal Mercier

  Lonely, Clever, Loneliness

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• Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many." " I never thought about it quite that way." Well, you're a man. " She gave his knee a friendly pat.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Knees, Way

  Nora Roberts (1996). “Daring to Dream”, p.72, Penguin

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• A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Girl, Falling In Love, Men

  Lucy Maud Montgomery, Francis W. P. Bolger, Elizabeth R. Epperly (1992). “My dear Mr. M.: letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery”, Oxford University Press, 1992

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• Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.

  Sarah Dessen

  Break Up, Breakup, Hurt

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichés, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he’d most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an “Arms are for Hugging” sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.

  Mark Steyn

  Christian, Jesus, Couple

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• Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Hands, Lost, Force

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• Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

  Heather Brewer

  Teacher, Evil, Matter

  Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”

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• Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Children, Coffee, Thinking

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Olive Kitteridge”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• (He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.

  Kathi Appelt

  Sweet, Dog, Needs

  Kathi Appelt (2012). “The Underneath”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking.

  Alyson Noel

  Heart, Mind, Facts

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.216, Pan Macmillan

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• If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly.

  Rebecca Stead

  Hurt, Boys, People

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• You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.

  Alex Garland

  Simple, Thinking, Swim

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.105, Penguin

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• I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never to be reopened or reread. And I could say goodbye to them, wish them well, bless them somehow for their good thoughts. A handshake in the street, a dropped item picked up and retrieved and handed back, or a friendly wave from the distant window, a nod, a smile, a moment when the eyes lock over the antics of a child.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Goodbye, Children

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• Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws

  Jim Morrison

  Angel, Wings, Ravens

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• In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Two, Omission

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

  Bertolt Brecht

  Dog, Morning, Book

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• I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Thinking, Loving Someone, Trying

  Walter Dean Myers (2009). “Riot”, p.135, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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