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“In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.”

World Feels Two Country States Bigs Neighbor Chinese Far Away Hamburgers Beijing Big Families Two Countries Chinese Food

Author:Jet Li

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”

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Author:John Locke

“Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.”

Want May Nations Loss Liberty Policy Affair Neighbor Stability Betray Wiser Betrayed Systematic

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788

“Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.”

“Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.”

Stills Turns Neighbor

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.”

Ifs Want States Moving Heaven Sake Neighbor Excitement Where You Are Again And Again Oregon Where You Are Going Portland Portland Oregon

Author:Tom McCall

“Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'”

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Author:George McGovern

“If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.”

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Author:Phil McGraw

“Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.”

Thinking Country Problem Morning Worry Jew Neighbor Get Up No Problem

Author:Golda Meir

“My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.”

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Author:Eric Morecambe

“Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.”

Community Acting Stranger Neighbor Brotherhood Unity In Diversity

Author:Ralph Nader

“President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.”

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Author:Randy Neugebauer

“Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.”

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Author:Gary Numan

“I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who was your next door neighbor you were playing with, who your girlfriend was. It's always something very specific.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone's throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale.”

Different Country Social Walks Animal Cities One Thing Dog Stones Neighbor Hills Solitary Acres

Author:Susan Orlean

“Do unto yourself as your Neighbours do unto Themselves and look Pleasant.”

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Author:George Ade

“A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.”

Believe May Two States I Believe Solutions Israel Neighbor Palestinian Closest Palestine Closest Friends

Author:Shimon Peres

“What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.”

Talking Neighbor Colleagues Family And Friends

Author:David Plouffe

“Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.”

Ifs Love Charity Neighbor Faith In God Flattery Thyself

Author:Francis Quarles

“For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.”

Men Should Has Beens Reason Born Destruction Should Have Neighbor Dumb Void Providence Should Have Been

Author:Quintilian

“We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.”

Thinking Trying Humans Term Natural Technology Rich Environment Middle Lucky Resources Innovation Oil East Neighbor Gas Middle East Jordan Natural Resources Human Resources

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.”

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Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.”

People Policy Protect Iraq Neighbor Regions

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.”

Ifs Men Love Should Years Doe Law Natural Mankind Diversity Hundred Neighbor Breathing Brotherhood Unity In Diversity Gait Upright Man

Author:Alfred Adler

“I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.”

Young Easy University Neighbor Filmmaker Conventions Zombie Easy To Get Ketchup Zombie Movie

Author:George A. Romero

“The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.”

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Author:Tim Roth

“And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.”

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Author:Tim Ryan

“The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.”

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Book:It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays

Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays

“Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.”

Life Literature Neighbor Love Yourself Fence Love Your Neighbor Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Neighbor Love

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.”

Firsts Able Situation Quiet Neighbor Exception Hiccups

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.”

Thinking Two Horse Neighbor Miles

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”

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Book:Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz

Source: Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz

“It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.”

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Author:Steven Seagal

“I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.”

Wanted Criticism Neighbor Intense France Dislike Artificial Interference Free Life

Author:Robert W. Service

“Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.”

People God Sin Neighbor Wicked Repentance Thank God Repent Thank You God

Book:Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

“The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.”

Giving Self Helping Kindness Duty Highest Neighbor Helping Others Public Service

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

“As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.”

Men Love Mean Soul Ends Christian Love Is Break Concern Relation Catholic Fellows Neighbor Anguish Fellow Man God Is Love Means To An End

Author:Edith Stein

“I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.”

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Book:The works of Laurence Sterne

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne

“It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.”

Men Looks America Faces Color Neighbor Every Man Objectives Helpful Mutual Objectivity

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“I actually never auditioned for 'Full House.' I had done a guest appearance on 'Valerie' as the next door neighbor's niece, and from that I got into 'Full House.' I was only five years old, and I was on the show until I was 13.”

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Author:Jodi Sweetin

“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”

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Book:No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

“We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.”

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Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.”

“I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.”

Used Next Doors Missing Dresses Neighbor Noses Hats Boots Rubber Wool Next Door Neighbors Impersonate

Author:Tracey Ullman