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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I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
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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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We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
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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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I'm a great mother because of my intentions on being a great mother; I'm a good friend because I'm loyal; I'm a good daughter because I've hopefully made my mother proud; I'm a great human being because I accept that there's a spiritual being underneath it all. I've always been a woman of faith.
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My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.
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If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.
