"Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever"
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"If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth."
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"You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound."
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"It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me."
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"We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people."
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"When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill."
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"You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one."
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"I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine."
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"At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards."
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"Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’."
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"We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence."
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"We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair."
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"We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe."
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"Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity"
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"Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before."
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"The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out."
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"Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital."
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"I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously."
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"You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy."
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"Humans need to be a multiplanet species."
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