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• Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

  Plato

  Men, Order, Law

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

  Rob Brezsny

  Giving, Understanding, Training

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.7, Frog Books

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• It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

  Maria Montessori

  Errors, Feelings, Purpose

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• Definition of good neighbor: someone to be trusted; a courteous, friendly source of help when help is needed; someone you can count on; someone who cares.

  Edward B. Rust, Jr.

  Who Cares, Definitions, Helping

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• Vagabonding is an attitude — a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.

  Rolf Potts

  Attitude, People, Vivid

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off pint-sized salesfolk or tie-with-short-sleeved-shirt-wearing adults. But if you are going to answer the door in your own house, what's wrong with being armed? What makes people feel entitled to a kid-friendly greeting when they disturb random strangers in their homes?

  Ann Althouse

  Kids, Home, Ties

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• First day working with Tom Hiddleston. He is my ideal as an actor: brilliant, reliable, human, decent, open, and friendly. He charmed my daughter as he has charmed me. I think my kid charmed him, too. This is a fellow I could joyfully spend the rest of my career working with. He's that good and that generous.

  Jim Beaver

  Daughter, Kids, Thinking

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• Life is way too short to be focused on scales, weight and cellulite. If you can look in the mirror and know that you're a beautiful, loving, friendly person who's good to people, that'll ultimately make you shine on the outside.

  Teresa Palmer

  Beautiful, Shine On, Mirrors

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• Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions.

  Shannon Elizabeth

  Turkeys, People, Loyal

  "Thanksgiving Q&A: Shannon Elizabeth’s New Tradition — Adopt A Turkey!". Interview with Christopher Locke, www.accesshollywood.com. November 21, 2012.

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• People say that New Yorkers aren't friendly, but I think they're more friendly than Londoners. Here there is a front-footed nature of Americans. You can go out on a night out and meet 10 random people and stay in touch with them, whereas that's not going to happen in the same way in London.

  Theo James

  Night, Thinking, People

  "Theo James (AKA Mr. Pamuk on Downton!) On His New Show Golden Boy, NYC, and More". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. February 26, 2013.

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• I'm addicted to the Internet. I admit it. It has transformed the way I work as a senator, communicate with my children, and keep tabs on news and cultural developments.... The Internet is a more direct communications link between legislators and their constituents....I constantly work at fusing my Senate work into my office home page to make it as useful, timely, and user-friendly as possible for Vermonters and others who may visit.....I look at my Web site, as my 24-hour virtual office, where visitors can send me an e-mail or search for the information they need anytime, day or night.

  Patrick Leahy

  Children, Communication, Home

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• I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed and deserved; but that is just another way of saying that Americans have overwhelmingly expunged from their public understanding the strongest and most clarifying resources out of ancient and traditional European cultures. By far we prefer our familiar and user-friendly parochialisms, and there is no percentage in trying to pry these pachydermal plates apart.

  Kenny Smith

  Issues, Perspective, Understanding

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• While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Friendship, People, Choices

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like to say hello and I think they appreciate it. I notice their faces light up with a smile and I believe that if all the people in our great city...would do that, the whole world would begin to say it is the "Friendly City." You can do a tremendous thing here. We get so absorbed, we do not always speak to our friends. Speak to them, even strangers, you are not going to give offense.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Friendship, Believe, Thinking

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• Yield not thy neck
  To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
  Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
  In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands
  that work on us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Healing, Yield, Hands

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• Anyone who thinks that wind factories are environmentally friendly should Google "Cefn Croes Photo Gallery", to see 100 chilling pictures showing how many miles of unspoiled Welsh countryside were disfigured to create the largest industrial site in Britain: all to "save" annually less than a quarter of the CO₂ emissions from a single jumbo jet.

  Christopher Booker

  Thinking, Wind Farms, Google

  "Christopher Booker's notebook". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 22, 2006.

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• I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Father, Childhood, Conservative

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, 'My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.' We belong in a bundle of life.

  Desmond Tutu

  Caring, Ubuntu, Essence

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• The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very
  friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Numbers, Race, Leader

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.213, Knopf

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• Versatile Tangerine is striking enough to stand on its own and adds vitality to a printed pattern. Good natured and friendly, but with a tangy edge, this fun-loving color invites a smile.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Fun, Color, Vitality

  "Fashion color report". PANTONE 15-1247 Tangerine, www.pantone.com. Spring 2015.

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• We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Views, Teeth

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well”, p.75, Hoover Press

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• If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.

  Richard Stallman

  Fun, Animal, Practice

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• I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.

  Linus Torvalds

  Couple, Exercise, Ubuntu

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• When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Country, Lonely, Moving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

  Robert Frost

  Horse, Wall, Character

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.177, Everyman's Library

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