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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being ...

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Amitav GhoshThe Shadow Lines

Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.

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Amitav GhoshThe Shadow Lines

as the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the ...

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Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular cata...

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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don...

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Underneath all things means that beneath the floorboards, in the depths, in the spaces between the p...

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Anne LamottHallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with the...

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must b...

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Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ...

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

All you need to know, boy," Finan growled, "is that Lord Uhtred's side is the one that wins.

The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not usefu...

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Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be dr...

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Blaise PascalThe Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, ...

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I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great se...

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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have...

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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use ne...

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The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

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Charles BukowskiThe Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be ha...

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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this w...

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Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.

We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

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Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to ...

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On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because...

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What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakab...

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Since then he had been walking with a ghost: the miserable ghost of his illusion. Only he had someho...

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Edith WhartonThe Custom of the Country

If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focuse...

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Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the cri...

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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. ...

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Immature loves says ' I love because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you.

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle...

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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones t...

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The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the gr...

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No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal ...

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Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together.

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Haruki MurakamiSouth of the Border

And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn’t see you any more, I realized that. ...

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need i...

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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

One chance is all you need.

I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tel...

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Joan DidionThe Year of Magical Thinking

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

You need some coffee, don't you?""Yes, I've only had a gallon.

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quie...

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Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the ...

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Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — yo...

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I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly mad...

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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they proba...

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We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their childr...

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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

I need to complete my homework on time.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I c...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

We especially need imagination in science.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge ...

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To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the ton...

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I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is neede...

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...

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We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the worl...

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I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...

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Mother TeresaThe Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

We need you to help us figure out how you can help us.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.