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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.

Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expect...

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We need Grace and forgiveness.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against ...

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Roland BarthesA Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting ea...

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Shane ClaiborneJesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

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Shane ClaiborneRed Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

He was my best friend and I needed him.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the...

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I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being...

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A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he ha...

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Stefan ZweigThe Burning Secret and other stories

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes,...

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I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending...

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She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the...

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I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To re...

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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth

All that God is, will supply your need.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man...

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The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever nee...

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Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

Logic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction bet...

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Not even need and love can defeat fate...

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

You need to be silly to be funny.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and...

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I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.

That is the word of reality - need.

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in t...

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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.