"All you need to do to be my friend is like me."
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"Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death."
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"All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone."
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"The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization."
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"[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!"
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"Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need."
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"Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of."
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"Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities."
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"You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you."
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"Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs."
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"Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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"None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
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"I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old."
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"That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer."
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"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice."
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"Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate."
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"You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art."
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"I think spirituality is a part of everything. It doesn't need to be separated out from everything else."
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"God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!"
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