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This past year my dearest friend has been undergoing treatment for cancer. First they mutilated her with a knife; next they burned her with radiation; at present she is being poisoned with chemotherapy. It's the best 20th century medicine...
With infinite resignation [the man of faith] has drained the cup of life's profound sadness, he knows the bliss of the infinite, he senses the pain of renouncing everything, the dearest things he possesses in the world, and yet finiteness tastes to him just as good as to one who never knew anything higher, for his continuance in the finite did not bear a trace of the cowed and fearful spirit produced by the process of training; and yet he has the sense of security in enjoying it, as though the finite life were the surest thing...
This custom of affection previously reserved for nearest and dearest is being cheapened by being conferred on all and sundry. Society will soon require some other way to express real love. I suggest the venerable Maori custom of rubbing noses...
...dearest child." Thus ceased the vile...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, in an interview last week with ABC Debutante Barbara Walters, declared that "Ford is my dearest friend ... If he is reelected, it will be a very happy occasion for me." The Egyptian leader was obviously thinking of the Ford-Kissinger policies that have enabled Cairo to recover much of the Sinai Desert and its valuable oilfields from Israel...