"My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you."
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"Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?"
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"For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth."
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"The need to connect with one another intimately is what makes and keeps us human. The challenge throughout life is to find the courage to reach out to potential partners when our primary relationship ends and to recharge our tried-and-true unions when their sizzle starts to fizzle."
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"We need to glance at our problems and stare at Jesus!"
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"We need to live the life that we say we believe in."
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"Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word."
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"Food is not the problem. It's what we do with food that becomes the problem. That's why we need to learn to keep everything in our lives - especially our eating - in proper balance."
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"No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in."
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"The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs."
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"I need to keep pressing on until I am thoroughly thankful."
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"You need to be moving if you want God to show you which way to go."
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"If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached."
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"The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them."
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"It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men."
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"Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world."
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"That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us."
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"Wow. Clearly, I need to find myself an ex-con. Since prison is probably the only place in this city I haven’t looked for Mr. Right yet."
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"Nowadays, a minister of health cannot consider his or her job done simply by looking at the health care system. It's not enough to have a health policy, you need healthy policies elsewhere."
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"The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else."
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