"We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for."
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"When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone."
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"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten."
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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
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"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."
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"I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services."
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"We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander."
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"We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance."
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"If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others."
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"All of us need to grow continuously in our lives."
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"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."
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"The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with anothers need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me."
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"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."
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"Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed."
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"A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable."
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"We need a leader, not a reader."
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"You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by."
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"We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources."
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"The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive."
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"I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government."
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