"'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'"
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"A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine."
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"Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all."
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"Ricorda, se hai bisogno di una mano la troverai alla fine del tuo braccio. Remember, if you need a hand you'll find it at the end of your arm."
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"The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation."
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"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started."
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"Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement."
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"You can't manage creativity. You need to manage for creativity. You need to create the space for it to emerge."
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"Moving forward, investigative journalists need to train themselves to be media amphibians - just as comfortable with the classic verities of great journalism as they are with video, Twitter, Facebook, and, most importantly, citizen journalism."
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"I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer."
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"We can take more time and interest, and give more attention to our personal health than a hired professional can. We have learned to go get medical help, not to give it. We have learned to relay our body's needs to another, not to provide them ourselves."
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"Only dead people need loud music, you know."
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"I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?"
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"A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them."
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"An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes."
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"Send out judgment and low energy and that is what you'll attract back. Remember, when you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself as someone who needs to judge. The same applies to judgments directed at you."
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"Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not."
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"Will you tell Him frankly, that you cannot carry your load, and that you need help? Will you suffer Him to help you in His own way, and be glad and thankful if He will only take you under His care, and direct the whole course of your life for you?"
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"Everything you need you already have."
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"Today, more pastors than ever need profound encouragement and rejuvenation."
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