It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
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'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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2 Corinthians 6:14:
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
(NIV)
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?
(AMP)
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
(KJV)
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What compact mean you to have with us? Will you be pricked in number of our friends, Or shall we on, and not depend on you?
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Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none
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