Norman Maclean Quotes

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

Norman Maclean

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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.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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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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  • School
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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.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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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.

  

  Alex Berenson
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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.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Up
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• Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

  

  Adolf Hitler
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  • Destruction
  • Poison

• The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

  

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• The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

  

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• Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Up
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• Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

  

  Norman Maclean
  • Enemy
  • Friendship
  • Silent