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• Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Crowds, Youth, Friend In Need

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• You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Art, Believe, Faith In Yourself

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• For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.  As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.  That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.  When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.  We call this the moment of death.  That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

  Bill Viola

  Ocean, Moving, Water

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• Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

  Nam June Paik

  Strong, Jobs, War

  "Art People" by Douglas C. McGill. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Ocean, Past, Desire

  Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”

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• Harden our hearts. To the innocents in the womb and we have hardened our hearts. To the need for compassion and mercy and. Fellow feeling. And charity. And decency in this world.

  Alan Keyes

  Heart, Compassion, Feelings

  Alan Keyes' Speech at McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, www.c-span.org. September 22, 2000.

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• I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Congress cool to role in Iraqi inspections" by Kate Snow, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2002.

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• Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled.  All our difficulty comes with the others.  When did you meet a workman who believes the papers?  He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem.  We have to recondition him.  But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning.  They're all right already.  They'll believe anything.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Believe, People

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• Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.

  C. S. Lewis

  Daughter, Winter, Luck

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.109, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Thinking, Support, Spain

  "'Not if, but when' for Spanish bailout, experts believe" by Luke Baker, ca.reuters.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

  Nigel Farage

  Thinking, Bits

  "Hitler anti-euro ad condemned". edition.cnn.com. July 4, 2002.

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• The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Running, People, Facts

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• No one should think he can quickly dispose of questions posed here offhandedly. It was precisely because writers were in the habit during the time of the Reformation of theologizing with a hammer that the split in the Church became irreparable. And to work at overcoming this split means much effort. Only the patient need apply.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Mean, Thinking, Effort

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• Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Sight, Order

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1989). “Christian Meditation”, p.5, Ignatius Press

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• It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which man knows himself to be dependent, powers whose favors he needs, powers whose wrath he fears. Myths express the knowledge that man is not master of the world and his life, that the world within which he lives is full of riddles and mysteries and that human life also is full of riddles and mysteries.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Men, Reality, Wrath

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• I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Jesus, Jobs, Doe

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.73, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Political, Understanding, Church

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.533, Duke University Press

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• You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

  Umberto Eco

  Falling In Love, Love You, Love Is

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week.

  Jim Cramer

  Years, May, Next

  "Someday We'll All Look Back on This and Laugh..." by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 12, 2009.

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• There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

  Paul Hindemith

  Twelve, Tone, Treated

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• Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents

  John Cornyn

  Thinking, Senators, Constituents

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• Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Hate, Shy, Want

  "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.

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• It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.

  Eusebius

  Scary, Use, Benefits

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• We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

  Banksy

  Hero, Recycling, Wall And Piece

  "Banksy: Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

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• One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

  John Fund

  Dog, Blue, House

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