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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
Needs

"No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel."

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Rex Harrison Actor
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"Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation."

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Sonny Rollins Jazz Musician
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"It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!"

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L. Frank Baum Author
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"You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts."

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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
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"We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs."

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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
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"A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'"

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it."

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