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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.

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.