Jessica Jung
Singer
"I think that rather being overly-friendly at first, having a cold first impression and slowly making them realize that I'm not that cold is better."
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Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress."
Julia Child
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly."
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"Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us."
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"If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be."
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"Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive"
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"Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive."
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"Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life."
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"Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large."
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"On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it."
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"Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?"
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"The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership."
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"…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith"
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"He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son."
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"When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too."
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"I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world."
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"The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most."
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"When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were."
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"When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?"
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"How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor."
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"Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another."
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"It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has."
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"The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?"
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