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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#arrangement #business #called #derive #friendship

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#been #ever #ideal #lip #lip service

The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#economic #economy #enough #improving #into

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#every #implies #obligation #opportunity #possession

Do you have to be like a second-grade dropout to be an umpire? Did you go to school until you were 8 years old? I think you quit school before you were 10. Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#being #did #end #go #i

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.' ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#keep #known #say #sister #used

I love the challenge of the game. I love the work. My goal right now is to have a season next year that will make people forget about this one. I'll use things like this for motivation. I'm pumped. I'm hungry. ↗

— Alex Rodriguez

#challenge #forget #game #goal #hungry

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#audition #box #complete #days #did

He whirled in the water and grinned at me. Damn, he was a handsome bastard. I realized he was half-naked. Blue swirls of tattoos painted his chest. When God made that chest, he did to tempt women. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#chest #kate #tattoos #temptation #temptation

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#more #more people #need #people #specialize