"The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1."
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"Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history."
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"In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems."
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"Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners."
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"... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive."
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"To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk."
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"There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules"
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"No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others"
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"You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more."
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"Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google."
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"There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And [that's] the first direction to go, [but] that need not prevent you from doing all the other equalities that you want."
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"The richest minds need not large libraries."
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"People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing."
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"At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order."
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"Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge."
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"We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy."
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"I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be."
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"It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness."
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"In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength."
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"The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man."
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