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“In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, someone who helps you become the best version of yourself.”
― Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

“Those on the right can do what those on the left talk about,” Nixon replied.”
― John A. Farrell, Richard Nixon: The Life

“Liberals just did not understand the real world, he claimed. They were “essentially humanitarian and altruistic in purpose,” but by making the working man dependent on the state for his well-being, they were advancing the country “one more step toward total socialism, just beyond which lies total dictatorship.” Such people think “the government owes us a living because we were born.” Dependence upon state handouts, he asserted, “must be repudiated everywhere.”
― William I. Hitchcock, The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s

“was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Belief is irresistible.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“By chance we met, by choice we become friend”
― Millie

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Friendship is love without wings.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.”
― William T. Sherman

“McNamara’s attempt to gain supporters failed. “I do not think there is a military problem there,” argued the secretary of defense. As”
― Serhii Plokhy, Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

“Like his fellow inmates, Churchill was driven by an “earnest desire to do something, however small, for the British cause,” with one important difference: “Of course, I am a man of peace. I do not fight. But swords are not the only weapons in the world. Something may be done with a pen.”
― Jonathan Rose, The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor

“As often happens in large families, the Morgenthau siblings divided along age lines. They paired up in alliances, squared off in rivalries.”
― Andrew Meier, Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

“Dear Lazarus! I agree with you entirely that it is best for me to go with you, for only in your company do I enjoy myself most completely…. I kiss you warmly and am, as always, your ever-loving Babette Morgenthau”
― Andrew Meier, Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

“Within a year, he had discovered it: Harlem, in particular 125th and 126th streets, the broad prospects lined with shops and row houses. “Nearly all of Harlem was for sale,” Henry remembered. Block after block of the stone and brick houses built a decade earlier had passed to mortgagees, while those who owned the houses were “thoroughly discouraged and could see little hope in the future.”
― Andrew Meier, Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

“It’s one thing to have talent, but another to have the drive to learn the nuances.”
― Pau Gasol, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

“For Shultz, differences of opinion and philosophy were grist for vigorous debate, not grounds for ideological warfare and the abandonment of friendships.”
― Philip Taubman, In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz

“Judaism’s solution to the “happiness problem” is to view happiness as a thought, making it an infinitely renewable resource, always at our disposal, rather than an existential lottery ticket.”
― Mendel Kalmenson, People of the Word: Fifty Words That Shaped Jewish Thinking