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In brisk lives defined by noise, the relentless hurry often muda medium gestures into shadow; it is only in the quiet awareness that we rediscover small offerings still whispered above the din.
Author:
Clara Onyx
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In silence our souls exchange whispers beyond articulation, forging depths seen only by the truly seen.
Author:
Amara Li
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Silent understanding forges connections deeper than words; it encompasses emotions during graph spaces where language falters.
Author:
Evelyn Shaw
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The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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Harmonizing metallic efficiency with sweeping empathy from our algorithms won't erase our existence but rather illuminate the depths of humanity into the architecture of the future.
Author:
Arom ntabdy
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Even in inviting melodies of routine, hidden harmonies pulse beneath the silence, weaving our stories into intricate tapestries of connection.
Author:
Clara Mason
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We can never have enough of Joe Carpenter's love; it fills every crack and crevice, leaving no room for doubt.
Author:
Pamela Bliss
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.
Author:
Dornford Yates
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While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
Author:
Terence
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In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
Author:
Arthur Sulzberger
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Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
Author:
Madeleine Stowe
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My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
Author:
David Stiers
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I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.
Author:
Kenneth Starr
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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Author:
Robert Southey
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
Author:
Mary Shelley
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
Author:
George Shaw
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It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
Author:
Michael Shanks
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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
Author:
Shakira
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The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people.
Author:
Bob Schaffer
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Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
Author:
Charles Rosen
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.
Author:
Eric Roberts
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Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
Author:
Basil Rathbone
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
Author:
Pindar
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Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
Author:
Bernadette Peters
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Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
Author:
John Pearson
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I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
Author:
Dick Patten
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Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
Author:
Saskya Pandita
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The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Author:
Edward Murrow
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I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.
Author:
Robin Morgan
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.
Author:
Thomas Middleton
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
Author:
Abraham Maslow
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Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
Author:
Leonard Maltin
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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
Author:
Norman MacCaig
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
Author:
Franz Liszt
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After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
Author:
William Lilly
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Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
Author:
Michael Lewis
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I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
Author:
Aly Khan
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
Author:
Abdul Khan
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Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
Author:
James Johnson
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
Author:
St. Jerome
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Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Author:
Andrew Jackson
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LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.
Author:
Charles Inglis
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
Author:
William Howells
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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Author:
Mark Hopkins
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
Author:
J. Holland
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Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
Author:
Anthony Holden
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Author:
Abraham Heschel
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I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Author:
Audrey Hepburn
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Author:
Arthur Helps
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When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.
Author:
Patricia Heaton
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But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.
Author:
Ernie Harwell
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Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?
Author:
Andrew Greeley
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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
Author:
William Godwin
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Author:
Theophile Gautier
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I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.
Author:
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
Author:
Marguerite Gardiner
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Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.
Author:
Marguerite Gardiner
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What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
Author:
Anna Freud
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
Author:
E. Forster
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I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long.
Author:
Darren Flutie
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Author:
Nan Fairbrother
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If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.
Author:
Lincoln Ellsworth
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In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
Author:
Havelock Ellis
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
Author:
George Eliot
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Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Author:
Mary Eddy
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Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.
Author:
Charles Eastman
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I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.
Author:
George Dzundza
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I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.
Author:
David Duchovny
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If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
Author:
Martin Delany
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Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!
Author:
Peter Cushing
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Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.
Author:
Tony Curtis
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Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.
Author:
Perry Como
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In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.
Author:
Perry Como
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As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.
Author:
Nick Clooney
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Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.
Author:
Nick Clooney
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The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.
Author:
Julian Clary
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We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.
Author:
Lillian Carter
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It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.
Author:
Jim Carrey
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People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Author:
Buddha
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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Author:
Buddha
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
Author:
Daniel Boone
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
Author:
Franz Boas
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
Author:
W. Auden
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I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.
Author:
Rene Auberjonois
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Author:
Aristotle
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
Author:
Aristotle
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Author:
Henri Amiel
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I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.
Author:
Bhumibol Adulyadej
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Author:
Jane Addams
