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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#friends #know #merits #our #rather

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#based #compromise #fundamentals #give #give and take

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #conviction #deepest #merely #please

Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam? ↗

— Jeff Gannon

#after #ago #alongside #america #denouncing

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked. ↗

— Andy Garcia

#cared #could #cuba #elegant #farmer

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#america #american #been #complex #lynch

I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there. ↗

— Jorge Garcia

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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#ideas #like #meaning #meaning of #mere

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#aspect #could #expected #external #flourishing