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• To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Ideas, Space

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books

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• I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Believe, Adults

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• Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where we are needed and respected and paid just a little more than we deserve. We want healthy children, safe streets, to be loved and have the unmitigated gall to accept love. If we are religious, we want a place to perpetuate God. If not, we want a good lecture every once in a while. And everyone wants someplace to party on Saturday nights.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Jobs, Children

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• ... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings.

  Lois Wyse

  Taken, Appreciate, Feelings

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• A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.

  Joyce Brothers

  Children, Men, Adults

  Joyce Brothers (1981). “What Every Woman Should Know About Men”, Simon & Schuster

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• Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Way

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

  May Sarton

  Children, Musical Genius, Years

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• Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

  John Dryden

  Book, Inward, Found

  1668 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.

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• I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.

  Ellen Goodman

  Rap, School, Careers

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• We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year after year. What is needed is flair, talent, 'an eye,' contacts, charisma, and, most of all, naturalness.

  Judith Martin

  Stars, Eye, Years

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

  Madame de Stael

  Imagination, Looks, Four

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• No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

  Madame de Stael

  War, Blood, May

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• Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

  Riane Eisler

  Communication, Teaching, Caring

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• I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears. I was not making any demands. I went purely to see what would come, what might be there. I didn't have to be archaeologist or historian or tourist, I just needed to be available.

  Paul Caponigro

  Light, Tourists, Demand

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• All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

  William Feather

  Food, Cooking, Vitamins

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• I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.

  Ed Askew

  Art, Teaching, Kids

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

  Joseph Joubert

  Order, Color, Finishing

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• [To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Would Be, Plumber, Adopted

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• What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

  George W. Bush

  Character, Government, Community

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Knives, Gossip, Potatoes

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

  Merle Shain

  Divorce, Views, Long

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Voice, Chocolate, Hot

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• I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

  Audre Lorde

  Firsts, Littles, Courageous

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• Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?

  Rolf Potts

  Fire, Order, Survival

  Rolf Potts (2003). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-term World Travel”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Guides, Wanted

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.224, Dial Press

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