future buddha

Maitreya is the tallest stone Buddha representation.

fair-weather

"We're all friends on the surface - where it counts."
- Will & Grace

reciprocity

"No friend has done me a favour, nor enemy an injury that I have not repaid in full."
- On Sulla's tombstone

pop!

"Meeting Roosevelt was like uncorking your first bottle of champagne."

- Winston Churchill

A Christian perspective

"25% of people will dislike you no matter what. 25% will dislike you but could be persuaded to like you. 25% will like you but could be persuaded to dislike you. 25% will like you unconditionally no matter what."
- Joel Osteen

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"There's either respect or no respect (there's no friendship) because we fight constantly."
- Three time World Champion Niki Lauda on Formula 1 

"Friends don't count in fair weather. It is when troubles come that friend's count."
- Harry Truman

conservative aim

"Aspirational agreements are what we have with our friends."

- David Brooks [born 1961]

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