#neighbors

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful. ↗

— John R. Allen

#constructive #critical #extent #going #here

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#know #neighbors #self #wisdom

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hating #loving #neighbors #our #ourselves

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#discovered #fool #neighbors #people

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. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

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To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow. ↗

— William Dunbar

#be kind #borrow #chance #friend #gladly

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. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#agree #also #always #attacked #being

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors. ↗

— Howard Koch

#neighbor #neighbors #only #you

The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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