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• I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.

  Karl Hyde

  Writing

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• When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

  Shane Filan

  Opposites, Looks, Pressure

  "Westlife singer Shane Filan on life after his £18m bankruptcy". Interview with Lorraine McBride, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 19, 2013.

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• In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Fighting, Order

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Imagination, Fortune Telling

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• I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

  Harriet Walter

  Long, Kind, Mature

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• I have said countless times that unless you are delivering a product and service that is really needed and unless you are doing it really well, you don't stick around for 80 years.

  Ashley Judd

  Years, Sticks, Said

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• During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Gloves, Down And, Remember

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Blessing, Journey

  "Three Goals to Guide You". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2007.

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• The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Hate, Political Revolution, Liberty

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• The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Monday, Prayer, Sunday

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• The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

  Gordon Allport

  Psychology, Becoming, Acquiring Knowledge

  Gordon Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.23, Yale University Press

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• True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Compassion, Giving

  "Pebbles of Wisdom". Book by Jaggi Vasudev, 2012.

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• We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.

  Pete Townshend

  Song, Stars, Memories

  Digital Spy, June 29, 2015.

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• Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us.

  Billy Graham

  Mean, Men, World

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• This last year I kind of stopped working out. I think my body just needed a break. And so I did that, and focused more on feeling good as opposed to beating myself up.

  Gwen Stefani

  Thinking, Years, Work Out

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• I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.

  Dakota Johnson

  Character, People, Laughing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Past, Comforting, Ifs

  Giovanni Boccaccio (1930). “The Decameron of Giovanni Bocaccio”

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• Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

  Terry Pratchett

  Christian, Parent, Church

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• Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Rain, Book

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• I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.

  Sarah Palin

  Teacher, School, America

  Palin, Biden debate, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• Whether or not it needed to happen, I'm still convinced it needed to happen.

  George W. Bush

  Stills, Happens, Convinced

  "President Bush on Iraq, Katrina, the economy". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2005.

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• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  Gabe Newell

  Impact, Order, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  Felicity Kendal

  Girl, Father, Taken

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• If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.

  Dorothy Allison

  Children, Writing, Years

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

  Al Gore

  Struggle, Light, Law

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