"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."
"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."
"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."
"The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?"
"In order to make friends you must first be friendly"
"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."
"Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man"
"I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly."
"Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen"
"A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind."
"Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us."
"How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything."
"At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts."
"Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse."
"I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis."
"You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!"
"When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity."
"Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons."
"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."