"Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul"

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Source : Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

Chaim Potok

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“I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them, showing them how to act rather than telling them. And I suggested that they should do the same with one another: that they didn't need a book of rules to tell them what to do and what not to do, but experience and action.”

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.429, Broadway Books
“You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.”
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
“But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.”
“One of my biggest lessons has been to be easier on myself and not make things such a big deal.”
“Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.”
“Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.”
“I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.”

Source : "Miranda Cosgrove Interview DESPICABLE ME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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