#partner

Friendship is essentially a partnership. ↗

— Aristotle

#friendship #partnership

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#divorce #divorces #duties #each #help

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#calling #crooks #future #i #most

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. ↗

— Ken Blanchard

#boss #in the past #lead #leader #leaders

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#fellow #ignore #ought #partners #sisters

....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership....And that statement is equally valid for all relationships. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#marriage #partnership #relationships #equality

Say yes,’ he whispers. ‘Marry me.’ I hesitate. I open my eyes. ‘You will get my fortune,’ I remark. ‘When I marry you, everything I have becomes yours. Just as George has everything that belongs to Isabel.’ ‘That’s why you can trust me to win it for you,’ he says simply. ‘When your interests and mine are the same, you can be certain that I will care for you as for myself. You will be my own. You will find that I care for my own.’ ‘You will be true to me?’ ‘Loyalty is my motto. When I give my word, you can trust me. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#equality-between-partners #husband-and-wife #love #loyalty #marriage

Love will wreck your heart like a derailed train. So choo-choose your partner wisely.
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— Jarod Kintz

#crash #heart #love #partner #train

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#both #damage #first #me #much

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#approximately #basic #ben #ceo #cloud