Dave Thomas
Comedian, Actor
"There are no strangers in Freemasonry, only friends you've yet to meet."
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Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up"
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!"
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief."
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?"
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"It's great when two strangers become best friends but not when best friends become two strangers."
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"Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do it with. And, let me tell you, commenting on people’s hilarious clothing choices through a megaphone makes it so much better."
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"Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?"
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"Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted."
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"Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another"
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"we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers"
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"Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other."
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"There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken."
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"Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!"
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"I´m a stranger in a strange land."
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"I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me"
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"The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger."
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"Ants and savages put strangers to death."
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"It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability."
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"Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said."
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"When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer."
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"The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger."
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"Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes"
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"People are strange when you're a stranger."
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"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys."
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