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• To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.

  Henri Nouwen

  Listening, Speech, Welcome

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• I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them down, to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Grief, Sadness, Listening

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They need not do much. They need do only one thing: Go to one side and tell all about the suffering endured by the other side, and go to the other side and tell all about the suffering endured by this side. This is our chance for peace. But how many of us are able to do that?

  Nhat Hanh

  Party, People, Listening

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• The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Perfect, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.139

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• We can all agree that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, all children should have the basic nutrition they need to learn and grow and to pursue their dreams, because in the end, nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our children... These are the basic values that we all share, regardless of race, party, religion. This is what we share. These are the values that this bill embodies.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Children, Party

  Michelle Obama's Remarks at the Signing of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 13, 2010.

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• We have to make sure that our kids still feel good about themselves no matter what their weight, no matter how they feel. We need to make sure that our kids know that we love them no matter who they are, what they look like, what they're eating.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Feel Good, Looks

  Remarks by the First Lady at "Let's Move" Town Hall Event, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 7, 2010.

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• Millions of Americans who know that Barack understands their dreams; that Barack will fight for people like them; and that Barack will finally bring the change we need.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Fighting, People

  Remarks: Michelle Obama at the DNC, voices.washingtonpost.com. August 25, 2008.

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• Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?

  A. J. McLean

  Girl, Love Is, Guy

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• You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

  Barry Hannah

  Joy, Hell, Now And Then

  Barry Hannah (2007). “Yonder Stands Your Orphan”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Air, Genius, Firsts

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.108, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

  Christopher Dodd

  Giving, Care, Politics

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• Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

  Christopher Dodd

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "EXCLUSIVE: Chris Dodd warns of Hollywood backlash against Obama over anti-piracy bill", www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2012.

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• We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

  Tanith Lee

  Art, Ancient, Scribes

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• Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

  Jim Clyburn

  House, Balance, Environmental

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• I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Meaningful, Thinking, Old Things

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• With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

  Joe Baca

  Water, Population, Growing

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• The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

  Joe Baca

  Accountability, Tools, Today

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• Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

  Joe Baca

  School, Special, Graduates

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• There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

  Damon Albarn

  Creativity, Disturbance

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• In fact, Christianity has been one of the great salivations on planet Earth. It's what's necessary in the Middle East. Others have written about it, I think these people need to be forcibly converted to Christianity but I'll get here a little later, I'll move up to that. It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.

  Michael Savage

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• I think these people [Al-Qaida, terrorists] need to be forcibly converted to Christianity ... It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.

  Michael Savage

  Thinking, People, Als

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• We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy.

  Michael Savage

  Warrior, Order, Enemy

  "SAVAGE TALK / A former herbalist has remade himself into the vitriol-spewing king of the Bay Area's afternoon drive time" by Dan Fost, www.sfgate.com. February 6, 2003.

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• It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

  Emile Durkheim

  Feelings, Variables, Limits

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

  Steffi Graf

  Writing, Doctors, Cities

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• I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Fighting, Play, Hard

  "ZZ top". Interview with Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2004.

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