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• Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Trying, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.

  Albert Einstein

  Uplifting, People, Proverbial

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• I watched the needle take another man.

  Neil Young

  Men, Drug, Another Man

  Song: The Needle and the Damage Done

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• [On acupuncture:] The needles are small and won't hurt at all. In fact, they'll feel good. Ha, ha! Just kidding. They feel like needles. Because they are.

  Jenny Lawson

  Hurt, Health, Feel Good

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.178, Pan Macmillan

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• I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen

  David Eddings

  Knitting, Knitting Needles, Want

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• I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.

  Criss Angel

  Jobs, Fire, Snakes

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• All the stream that's roaring by
  Came out of a needle's eye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Roaring, Streams

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Nsa, People

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I never used needles, but I was into heroin, cocaine – those are the things I’ll never touch again.

  Corey Feldman

  Cocaine, Heroin, Used

  "The Hot Seat: Corey Feldman". Interview with Barbara Hoffman, nypost.com. June 26, 2005.

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• Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Football, Passion, Fans

  "I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Play, Piano, Nurse

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• The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

  Ramakrishna

  Ocean, Heart, Men

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

  Deborah Norville

  Art, Passion, Years

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• Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Winter, Knitting, Wish

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Winning, Victory

  GOLF Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. July 18, 2009.

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• I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Knives, Phobia

  "What I see in the mirror" by Jasmine Guinness, www.theguardian.com. January 05, 2008.

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• It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year;
  The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.
  The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro,
  A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane.
  Autumn leaves and rain,
  The passion of the gale.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Rain, Passion, Autumn

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3781, Delphi Classics

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• Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

  Eddie Van Halen

  Hurt, Crazy, Believe

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• Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Advice, Common, Tattooed

  "Crucial Steps in Combating the Aids Epidemic; Identify All the Carriers" by William F. Buckley, Jr., archive.nytimes.com. March 18, 1986.

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• Give your thanks to the needle that stuck in your finger, to wooden beam that you hit your head, to bee that stung you on your hand, because they taught you something!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hands, Giving, Taught

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• It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Eye, Giving, Political

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• I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Knitting, Acting, Agents

  "Axis". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2007.

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• My inside self and my outside self used to match.  A compass needle pointed true north.  Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Self, Compass, Used

  Elizabeth Berg (2002). “True To Form”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

  Thomas Hood

  Tears, Thread, Hinder

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.149

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• Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes.

  Elton John

  Sex, Drug, Wells

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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