"Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least."
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"Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself."
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"If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday."
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"I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form."
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"You don't need to know what tomorrow holds; all you need to know is the One who holds tomorrow."
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"Many a family tree needs trimming"
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"Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated."
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"You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever."
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"In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable."
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"If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?"
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"To succeed,all I need to do is suffer."
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"As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done"
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"We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection."
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"After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required."
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"We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds."
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"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
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"That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to."
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"Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'."
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"Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence."
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"The flower of # consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows."
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