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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath...

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about treasure

I'm I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to...

I'm I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with. in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about good luck, perfection, life

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about love, impossible, family, sex, world, life

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the...

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Quote by Robert Frost about poetry, thinking, emotions, word

A friendship founded on business is better than a...

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Quote by John Davison Rockefeller about friendship, affair

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about moral, virtue, humility, soul

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about army, liberty, society, contentment

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require...

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about democracy, experience, history, nothing

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about democracy, history, country, world

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

Quote by Willie Aames about teaching, miracle, death, people

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, moral, celebrity, end, nothing, contentment, time

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few...

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Quote by Edward Abbey about rules, man

Better treatment and policing are essential to winning...

Better treatment and policing are essential to winning the battle against drugs, but prevention is the foundation.

Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre about drugs, essential

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Quote by Joe Baca about equality, chance, nation, people

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States...

Quote by Joe Baca about americans

I came to Hawaii in 1959 with statehood, and of course the whole foundation of this multiracial, multicultural, multiethnic society in Hawaii is the aloha spirit, the legacy of the Polynesian pioneers.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about society, spirit

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about word, art, magic, poets

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about individuality, age, olderness, nothing, good, good luck

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Quote by Francis Bacon about good, good luck

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

Quote by Floyd Abrams about question, law, use, end, day, contentment

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