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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Benito Mussolini

Strong, Friends, Become

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper

Love, Hope, Death

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno

Time, Waiting, Tomorrow

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Men, Feeling, Two

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert

Marriage, Woman, Friend

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Person, Cannot, Become

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
Bo Bennett

Good, Important, Show

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nature, Best, Friend

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

Words, Same, Old

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feather

Life, Good, Help

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
E. M. Forster

Friends, Possible, Might

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love, Men, Death

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift

Good, Best, Art

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne

Art, Death, Die

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
Albert Ellis

Love, Great, Sex

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
Robin Hayes

Women, Men, Best

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
Robin Williams

Pretty, Himself, Language

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash

Marriage, Two, Alliance

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Freedom, Laziness, Criticism

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andre Maurois

Truth, Pure, Poison

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Willa Cather

Single, Dark, Sometimes

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison

Parent, Sight, Loaded

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.
Piper Perabo

Love, Mind, Tough

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Abigail Adams

Service, Ourselves, Mankind

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

Writing, Difficult, Somebody

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud

Life, Him, Idea

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.
Louis Farrakhan

Give, America, She

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
Gilbert Parker

Good, Women, She

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Charles Caleb Colton

Time, Freedom, Death

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