"God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them."
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"Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art."
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"I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's."
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"America remains the one indispensable nation. And the world needs a strong America."
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"When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence."
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"You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life."
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"One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans."
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"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?"
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"I set up a system for myself where I work on a lot of pieces at once. I'll switch between them and keep working on a piece until it comes together, and then I'll publish it. This way some pieces can take a year if they need to. The trick is to just make sure one is ready every week."
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"There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting."
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"People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs."
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"Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world."
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"We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons."
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"Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success."
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"If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government."
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"Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes."
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"The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other."
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"Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding."
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"I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs."
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"Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -"
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