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• I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

  Rita Dove

  Reading, Thinking, Play

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• I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

  Gloria Estefan

  School, Home, Thinking

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• How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Hate, Self, Loathing

  "Don’t End the War on Terror" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Believe, Together, Rooms

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• Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fiction, Life Is, Convincing

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• Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I’ve always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I’ve always loved it and I like how those words sound together.

  Ben Gibbard

  Girlfriend, Wife, Together

  "Ben Gibbard’s Seventh-Album Stretch". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Land, People

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• Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.

  Seth Godin

  Educational, Loyal Customers, Marketing

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• I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

  Bear Grylls

  Sweat, People, Sitting Down

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• What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

  Naomie Harris

  Home, Offering, People

  "Naomie Harris Interview The First Grader". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Knowing, People

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• Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Art, Spring, Roots

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• My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

  Katherine Heigl

  Mother, Children, Different

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• It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Perfect, May, Normal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loneliness, Failure, Being Alone

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

  Reid Hoffman

  Strong, Smart, Team

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• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Wisdom, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.750, Wordsworth Editions

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• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.168

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• At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Enmity, Indifference

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• Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

  Alan King

  Marriage, Fighting, Way

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• Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Empathy, Fiction, Essays

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• Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Islands, Romance, Care

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• What firefighters, and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do, basically these people say "I'm going to protect all these strangers."

  Denis Leary

  Military, People, Firefighter

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Reality, Photographer

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• People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

  David Letterman

  Inspirational, Two, People

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