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“We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“Americans who have lost their jobs need our help and I support extending unemployment benefits and direct assistance for health care coverage.” George W. Bush, State of the Union Address
“It may therefore be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion, but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each others' faults.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Asses are made to bear, and so are you.” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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