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Cultivate friendships. If you don’t have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.

— Gracie Allen How to Become President (1940)

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Who am I to talk? That’s a fair question, and one which deserves a better answer than I can give you.

How to Become President (1940)

Now, I don’t pretend to know all the answers. I’m just a plain, ordinary, everyday genius who loves her fellow-man whenever possible.

How to Become President (1940)

Try to understand me. Nothing is impossible.

How to Become President (1940)

It’s silly to think that Presidents are born, because very few people are 35 years old at birth, and those who are won’t admit it.

How to Become President (1940)

I’m the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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