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• Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.

  Sharon Olds

  Book, Writing, Two

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

  Nelly Furtado

  Sexy, Underwear, Cotton

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• Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.

  Annie Lennox

  Country, Health, Mean

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• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Prayer, Practice, America

  "This week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.

  Michael Phelps

  Wall, Night, Race

  Michael Phelps (2016). “Beneath the Surface: My Story”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There is never any end... There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state.

  John Coltrane

  Feelings, Sound, Imagine

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• The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

  Kurt Lewin

  Maturity, Men, Self

  "The Research Center for Group Dynamics".

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• When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

  Jacques Audiard

  Writing, Work Out, Trying

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.

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• But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Mean, Technology

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• It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.

  Alfred Jarry

  Fighting, Numbers, Psychology

  Alfred Jarry (1961). “Ubu Roi”, p.175, New Directions Publishing

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• Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

  John Currin

  People, Culture, Body

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• A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation, to bring our two worlds together. It was a century of failure. We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build

  Maurice Samuel

  Two, Forever, Tolerance

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• The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

  Charles Simic

  Beautiful, Art, World

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• I do believe that a poem needs to remind the reader of his or her own humanity, of what they are, of what they're capable of. Awaken them, in a sense, to the fact that there's a world in front of their eyes, that they have a body, they're going to die, the sky is beautiful, it's fun to be in a grassy field when the sun is shining—those kinds of things.

  Charles Simic

  Beautiful, Fun, Believe

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• The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

  Andrew Card

  Permission

  "White House: U.S. doesn't need U.N. permission on Iraq" by Jamie McIntyre, www.cnn.com. November 10, 2002.

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• First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

  John Yoo

  War, Rights, May

  "Obama releases internal Bush Justice Department memos" by Terry Frieden, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2009.

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• We need to remember that though we make our friends, God has made our neighbors – everywhere. Love should have no boundary; we should have no narrow loyalties.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Love, Loyalty, Should Have

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• There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Evil, Church, Tides

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• As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Home, Parent, Police

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• The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Giving, Affliction

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• In a 'wheat and tares' world, how unusually blessed faithful members are to have the precious and constant gift of the Holy Ghost with reminders of what is right and of the covenants we have made. 'For behold, ... the Holy Ghost ... will show unto you all things what ye should do.' (2 Ne. 32:5.) Whatever the decibels of decadence, these need not overwhelm the still, small voice! Some of the best sermons we will ever hear will be thus prompted from the pulpit of memory—to an audience of one!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Memories, Blessed, Voice

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• In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, God Knows, Knows

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• Missionary work will never be what it might be without the help of the members. Stake presidents need to feel some responsibility and ownership of missionary work. The stake president is the one who has the presiding priesthood keys over both the members and non-members in his stake. The missionaries are his helpers.

  James E. Faust

  Responsibility, Keys, President

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• Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, “From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth – O God of truth, deliver us.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Prayer, Thinking, Zest

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• Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else’s. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Cutting, People

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