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• Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table.

  Steve Jobs

  Fall, Tables, Electronics

  "Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future.

  Carl Sagan

  Notebook, Motivation, Powerful

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows.

  Barbara Holland

  Drinking, House, Joy

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Men, Uniforms, Assault

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• What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age, a Muslim Reformation to combat not only the jihadist ideologues but also the dusty, stifling seminaries of the traditionalists, throwing open the windows to let in much-needed fresh air.... It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it.... Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  Salman Rushdie

  Sibling, Moving, Air

  "Everybody needs to get thicker skins" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2008.

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• Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Angel, Return

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1994.

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• There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Guitar, Two

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• I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Life, College, Destiny

  "Dustin Hoffman at Play in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". Press Conference, movieweb.com. November 19, 2007.

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• A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Believe, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.37, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Lying, Men, Opening Up

  John D. Rockefeller (2003). “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events”, p.144, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.

  Studs Terkel

  People, Car, Buttons

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Elements, Chance

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

  Phil Crosby

  Simple, Quality, Management

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• If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.

  Alice Cooper

  Song, Four, Sentimental

  "Alice Cooper: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 02, 2009.

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• Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Running, Discipline, Swim

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• Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Doe, Culture, Regulation

  Lawrence Lessig (2016). “Free Culture”, p.257, Lulu Press, Inc

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• While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Facts, Protection, Justified

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion.  That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

  Joss Whedon

  Compassion, Done

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• The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

  Bill Gates

  Waiting, Poor, Philanthropist

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• I hate getting yelled at, that'll get you on my bad side. My mom never yelled at me. She just told us what needed to be done and we did it.

  Edgerrin James

  Mom, Hate, Done

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• Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Law, Time Zones, Numbers

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• Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.

  John Haines

  School, Independent, Night

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• I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'

  Matt Holliday

  Grateful, Men, Thinking

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• My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mom, Jobs, Dad

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• The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.

  Carrie Underwood

  Teacher, Moving, School

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