"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."

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Thomas Fuller

#Friendship Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Men Quotes

“If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years.”

Source : Song: Goodbye Time, 2004
“Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to create a musical work. All one thing is a bore-all dissonance, or all fatuous consonance. George Winston and Guns and Roses are two sides of the same worthless coin in my esthetic world.”

Source : "Chuck Israels: Evans, Education And Philosophy". Interview with Sean Dietrich, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 27, 2010.
“The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back”
“Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!”
“I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them.”
“It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars”

Source : Michael Baisden (2000). “The Maintenance Man: A Novel”, Touchstone
“I consider that all Jews in the Diaspora, and thus it is true in France, should everywhere they can lend their support to Israel. This is why it is also important that Jews take political responsabilities. .... In sum, in my functions and in my everyday life, through the whole of my actions, I try to make so that my modest stone is brought to the construction of the land of Israel.”
“The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.”

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