Norman Maclean Quotes
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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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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So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
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As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
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I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.
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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
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Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?
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There had to be an end of slavery. Then we were fighting an enemy with whom we could not make a peace. We had to destroy him. No convention, no treaty was possible. Only destruction.
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Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
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When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'
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When you start a relationship, there's part of the friendship that dies - you can never go back.
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The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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The world is large when weary leagues two loving hearts divideBut the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.
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We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.
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We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.
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It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
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I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.
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Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
