"We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst."
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"America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in."
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"We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires."
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"Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology."
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"While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid."
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"If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented."
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"If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl."
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"Never settle. There is no need to rush."
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"Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers."
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"Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed."
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"Not being able to live without someone is not love. It's need."
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"Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs."
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"Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time."
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"Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs."
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"Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement."
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"That's the beauty about love. It's not about give-and-take - it's about feeling safe in one's needs - wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after."
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"Am I falling in love? She thought, is it safe to do so with this man? She thought, I don't need to answer."
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"I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up, it seemed that the ones I liked didn't need to have a stylist."
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"It's easy to get a loan unless you need it."
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"There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption."
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