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Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

—Harper Lee

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We are all each other's neighbors. It is the notion of proximity, not geography, that constitutes community.

—Eric Liu

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A true neighbor is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

—Bernard Meltzer

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More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.

—Ordway Tead

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A good neighbor—a found treasure.

—Chinese proverb

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All human beings are my neighbors. We share the same planet.

—Ana Monnar

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It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

—Maya Angelou

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The happiest people I know are people who don’t even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

—Harold S. Kushner

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Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor’s noisy party than being there.

—Franklin P. Jones

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We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbors.

—Thomas Fuller

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A neighbor is a friend you have yet to meet.

—Unknown

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Won't you be my neighbor?

—Fred Rogers

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Poem: Neighbors in October

Poem: With Neighbors One Afternoon

How to know your neighbors

Listening to my neighbors fight

20 years of friendship with the woman across the hall

Kind neighbors are scarce, but important

Meet the neighbors

The rebirth of the neighborhood

Why are your neighbors just like you?

‘I could see all of my neighbors sitting out on their porch steps’

My neighbor, my pandemic pal

Your neighbors, your waistline

The old neighbors

It helps to like your neighbor during a natural disaster

Preparing for a hurricane? Think about your neighbors

Neighborhoods can shape success—down to the level of a city block

Here’s a secret about your neighbors

How ‘not in my backyard’ became ‘not in my neighborhood’

The New Yorker on neighbors

What petty nextdoor posts reveal about America

Notes on the murder of thirty of my neighbors

Community input is bad, actually

What do you owe your neighbor?

Americans need more neighbors

Finding God in the neighborhood

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