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• When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

  Ian Frazier

  Thinking, Tree, Upset

  "Tilting at Tree Bags" by Ian Frazier, www.motherjones.com. January 2001.

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• If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

  Azar Nafisi

  Book, Order, Sanctuary

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.170, Random House

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• As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton's personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears transformation. Plenty of critics concede her rarely seen emotion was heartfelt, but also that it was due to the 20-hour-day rigors of the campaign trail, making her perhaps the only candidate ever to win the New Hampshire primary because she needed a nap. Still, it was refreshing to watch her punch through the icy crust of her own phoniness, so that the molten core of artificiality could gush forth.

  Matt Labash

  Winning, Naps, Personality

  "Making Political Trouble". www.weeklystandard.com. January 28, 2008.

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• I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, Play, Issues

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• I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Hands, Water

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

  Paula Creamer

  Growing Up, Independent, Spoons

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• Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Encouragement, Caring, People

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 6, 2011.

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• Theory is needed to tell you where to look.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Looks, Theory

  "Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems" by Marcus du Sautoy, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2013.

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• I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

  Robyn

  Past, Tragedy, Proven

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• Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

  Hugh Howey

  Sometimes, Closure, Found

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)”, p.549, Random House

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• I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

  Akio Morita

  Break Through, Different, Weapons

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• I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

  Susanna Kaysen

  My Future, Wanted, Felt

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• Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

  Tyler Farr

  Land, Fancy Things, Goal

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• How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.

  Karl Marlantes

  Mad At Someone, Switzerland, Able

  Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.39, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

  Hannah Storm

  Personality, Different, Body

  "10 questions for ESPN sportscaster Hannah Storm". Interview with Trisha Henry, www.cnn.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.

  Og Mandino

  Years, Library, Veins

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• I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

  Troy Polamalu

  Children, Thinking, Tough

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• In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

  Ryan Lewis

  Mom, Blood, Hiv

  "A Message from Ryan Lewis". www.indiegogo.com.

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• We disbanded our intelligence and then found we needed it. Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face.

  William Colby

  Years, Faces, Found

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• The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

  Yoshihiko Noda

  Two, Overcoming, Done

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• I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light that's within himself, and through this light he will create a new community.

  Laurens van der Post

  Men, Light, Profound

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• Treat the world like a failed state, then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Player, World, States

  "Davos: Quiet Optimism Rises, Angelina Who?, and a Bonus to Giving Idea" by Cameron Sinclair, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2009.

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• Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we are dependent on the miracles of Christ's atonement if our souls are to be made whole from grief, sorrow, and sin

  Merrill J. Bateman

  Grief, Men, Miracle

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• Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. Hes built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.

  Don Yaeger

  Running, Stars, Opportunity

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• As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

  Arthur Golden

  Writing, Past, Men

  "Author Q & A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.randomhouse.com.

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