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"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved."
"A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener."
"Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them."
"If you hating, you just need some pussy."
"I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool."
"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."
"At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose"
"If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl"
"You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool."
"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
"We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list."
"All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do."
"Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."
"There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment."
"Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs."
"It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially."
"I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material."
"If you want to be loved, start loving others who need your love....If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected, you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old....Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself; then you will find others responding in like manner to you."
"A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy."
"I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am."
