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Familiar Quotations
Affiliates – "Adjoin"
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
–Simone Weil
Affiliates – "Alliance"
Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?
–John F. Kennedy
To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge --to convert our good words into good deeds--in a new alliance for progress--to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty.
–John F. Kennedy
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
–Ogden Nash
Affiliates – "Allies"
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
–Leonard Cohen
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
–Sydney Hook
When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally, that is the devil. Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heart is the only true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit.
–George MacDonald
Affiliates – "Associate"
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
–Fred Allen
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
–Aristotle
It is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, or just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living things who have this sense makes a family and a state.
–Aristotle
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Affiliates – "Adjoin"
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
–Simone Weil
Affiliates – "Alliance"
Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?
–John F. Kennedy
To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge --to convert our good words into good deeds--in a new alliance for progress--to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty.
–John F. Kennedy
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
–Ogden Nash
Affiliates – "Allies"
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
–Leonard Cohen
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
–Sydney Hook
When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally, that is the devil. Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heart is the only true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit.
–George MacDonald
Affiliates – "Associate"
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
–Fred Allen
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
–Aristotle
It is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, or just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living things who have this sense makes a family and a state.
–Aristotle
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