"Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend."

-- Thomas Moore

#Friendship Quotes #Loss Quotes #Long Quotes

“Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.”
“Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.”

Source : "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.
“These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.”

Source : Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”
“I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.”
“A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.”
“It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.”
“Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal.”
“The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.”

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

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