Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven Quotes
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
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If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.
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One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
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I met Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu years ago during my college days, and I was in charge of international promotion of this movie festival he was invited to as part of the jury, and then he saw my work on a short film that was directed by a friend of mine.
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What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
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I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
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I met my husband through a mutual friend. He invited me over for dinner and cooked this meal that knocked my socks off - and maybe knocked off a few other pieces of clothing off as well.
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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.
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Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.
