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A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.
`` A portable companion always ready to go where you go -- a small friend weighing less than a freshborn infant -- to be shared with few or many -- just two of you in sweet meditation ''.
The gentle Channing, revered by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and action: `` No city in the world is governed so little by a police, and so much by mutual inspections and what is called public sentiment.
He becomes Poirot's lifelong friend and appears in many of the novels and stories.
During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.
Of his courage, temperance, and hardiness, many instances are cited: and to these were added the less Spartan qualities of kindliness and tenderness as a father and a friend.
Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.
His friend Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai with whom Gauss had sworn " brotherhood and the banner of truth " as a student, had tried in vain for many years to prove the parallel postulate from Euclid's other axioms of geometry.
He was the best drummer I had ever played with and for many years, my closest friend.
In a letter to a friend, Erasmus once had written: " That you are patriotic will be praised by many and easily forgiven by everyone ; but in my opinion it is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.
Nevertheless Berengar considered him his friend many years later and requested him to silence a certain Galfrid Martini or to arrange a disputation.
Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).
Although Salkeld rejected his offer of marriage, she was to remain a friend and regular correspondent for many years.
The divorce became final in December 17, 2001. Throughout the mid-1990s, many tabloids reported that he was having an affair with longtime friend and collaborator Trisha Yearwood.
Of these versions, the Bliss version, written well after the speech as a favor for a friend, is viewed by many as the standard text.
Some influence was direct, as he was a friend, inspiration, and correspondent to many of his contemporaries, such as August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and Fritz Leiber.
This duty may be imputed ; for example, in many jurisdictions, in cases of where a corporate insider " tips " a friend about non-public information likely to have an effect on the company's share price, the duty the corporate insider owes the company is now imputed to the friend and the friend violates a duty to the company if he or she trades on the basis of this information.
His best friend during his college years, Martin Klein, convinced him of " the splendors of physics during a long evening over many beers.
Charlie ( Harvey Keitel ) is a young Italian-American man who is trying to move up in the local New York Mafia but is hampered by his feeling of responsibility towards his reckless friend, Johnny Boy ( Robert De Niro ), a small-time gambler who owes money to many loan sharks.
Friedman was initially unable to find academic employment, so during 1935, he followed his friend W. Allen Wallis to Washington, where Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was " a lifesaver " for many young economists.
Jean Warboys ( Doreen Mantle ) – Mrs Warboys is a friend of Margaret ( and a rather annoying one in Victor's eyes ) who attached herself to the Meldrews, accompanying them on many of their exploits.
His rival and friend Hector Berlioz would adopt many of these innovations in his touring of Europe.

friend and years
I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.
Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.
For two years his friend and cousin, Boisbriant, remained as acting governor and could do little to stem the Anglican advance.
Obviously Sloan's early years were influenced by his close friend Robert Henri.
While Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in " Curtain ", years after his retirement from active investigation, it was not the first time Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend.
Olmedo and Rivera had been friend since Olmedo was a child and Rivera spent the last two years of his life here.
Over the next several years Metastasio gave Salieri informal instruction in prosody and the declamation of Italian poetry, and Gluck became an informal advisor, friend and confidante.
Although the press reported that he was engaged to vaudeville dancer and choreographer Rose Rolanda in 1924, Hopwood's close friend Carl Van Vechten confirmed in later years that it was all a publicity stunt.
Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, BAO ; " Benny Anderssons Orkester " (" Benny Andersson's orchestra "), utilising the vocal talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm ( from Kristina from Duvemåla ) and Tommy Körberg ( of Chess fame ), with lyrics to new material sometimes written by his song-writing partner and best friend of 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.
In two, The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate, a friend from his circus years, Nick Cravat, played a key supporting role, and both actors impressed audiences with their acrobatic prowess.
Rose, along with his close friend and former teammate Mike Schmidt ( who is a strong supporter of Rose's reinstatement into baseball ), met with Selig in 2002, where Rose privately admitted to Selig ( two years before going public with his admission ) about betting on baseball.
" China has been a friend of Cape Verde even before it gained independence from Portugal 30 years ago.
The cursus honorum began with ten years of military duty in the Roman cavalry ( the equites ) or in the staff of a general who was a relative or a friend of the family.
12 years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset in front of the castle when her father tells her of a letter he received earlier from his friend General Spielsdorf.
Nonetheless, he left after only a year, stating that " I was not inspired AT ALL in that place ", and instead deciding that he wanted to travel around Europe for three years with his friend Jack Fisk, who was similarly unhappy with his studies at Cooper Union.
In the third mystery the plot involves Encyclopedia's partner, close friend and bodyguard, Sally Kimball, the one person under twelve years of age to physically stand up to Bugs.
During his years at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Fermi teamed up with a fellow student named Franco Rasetti with whom he would indulge in light-hearted pranks and who would later become Fermi's close friend and collaborator.
Monica ’ s first serious relationship is with family friend Richard Burke who is 21 years her senior.
Joey rooms with his best friend Chandler for years and later a while with Rachel.
Monica begins dating Richard ( Tom Selleck ), a recently divorced family friend and 21 years her senior.

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