"Only bad generals need heroes."
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"Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great."
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"Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news - the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
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"What we need is love, to guide and protect us on."
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"I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help."
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"I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit."
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"'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us."
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"We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us."
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"The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking."
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"There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love."
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"I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well."
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"I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to."
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"Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this."
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"Need is not quite belief."
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"It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless."
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"I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that folks are on time and making sure that folks are getting what they need and know what they need to do."
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"The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star."
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"People will say what they want to say, and it's okay. And my life will go on, and I need to focus on my life. So, do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman? I sure hope I don't. I know I am."
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"You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need."
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"Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel."
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