"Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness."
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"I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting."
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"It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique."
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"My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time."
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"If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective."
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"Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance."
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"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
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"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice."
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"We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty."
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"Sometimes party loyalty asks too much."
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"After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."
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"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom."
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"Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life"
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"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans."
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"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."
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"I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty."
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"But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people."
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"One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart."
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"The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a danger we may take this freedom for granted. We must never forget it was bought for us at a great price. The brave and resourceful Americans whose sacrifices gained our Independence and preserved it for more than 200 years against formidable foes have set an example of unflinching loyalty to the ideal of liberty and justice for all."
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"Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog."
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