Neighbors Quotes
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Now that I was surrounded by admiration, I could admit without uneasiness that talking to her incited ideas, pushed me to make connections between distant things. In those years of being neighbors, I on the floor above, she below, it often happened. A slight push was enough and the seemingly empty mind discovered that it was full and lively. I attributed to her a sort of farsightedness, as I had all our lives, and I found nothing wrong with it. I said to myself that to be adult was to recognize that I needed her impulses. If once I had hidden, even from myself, that spark she induced in me, now I was proud of it, I had even written about it somewhere. I was I and for that very reason I could make space for her in me and give her an enduring form. She instead didn’t want to be her, so she couldn’t do the same. That was the underlying cause of the illness that she called “dissolving boundaries.
Elena Ferrante
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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.
Harry S Truman
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
Moliere
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The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.
Karl Hess
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I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.
Joshua Ostrander
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Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.
Martin Luther
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"When a house is on fire, the neighbors' duty is to put it out"
Habib Bourguiba
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There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.
Harry S Truman
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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
George Bernard Shaw
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They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
Sarah Palin
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Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble.
Heidi Hammel
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In America, we trade more energy with our neighbors than we trade with the rest of the world combined. And I do want us to have an electric grid, an energy system that crosses borders. I think that would be a great benefit to us.
Hillary Clinton
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It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.
Harley Pasternak
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See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.
Thomas Aquinas
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There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.
Evan Osnos
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My wish is peace for Israel and for Israel's neighbors.
Jimmy Carter
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
Bob Goff
