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• Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Elements, Chance

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

  Phil Crosby

  Simple, Quality, Management

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• Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get very milky and the colors get very weak, and we made so many different versions of it to just pump more color into it, so it would look just as good in the theater as it does on your screen at home. And color was my constant whine. It needed to be very oversaturated.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Home, Color, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Doe, Culture, Regulation

  Lawrence Lessig (2016). “Free Culture”, p.257, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Law, Time Zones, Numbers

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• Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.

  John Haines

  School, Independent, Night

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• My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mom, Jobs, Dad

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• The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.

  Carrie Underwood

  Teacher, Moving, School

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• To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail.
  
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  The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Teenage, Block

  "An international campaign : Build moral pressure to end the occupation" by Desmond Tutu, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2002.

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• As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Ocean, Home, Space

  "Spaceships Worthy of the Name" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2010.

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• To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

  Bell Hooks

  Psychics, Maintenance, Denial

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• In the process of being metabolized, sugar robs your body of valuable nutrients ... Sugar also inhibits your liver's production of enzymes needed in the detoxification process.

  Ann Louise Gittleman

  Enzymes, Body, Sugar

  Ann Louise Gittleman (2011). “Ultimate Fat Flush Plan and Cookbook (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.16, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.

  Sandra Bernhard

  People, Feel Good, Thank God

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being rational - along with being clear and honest - are important if we are to create the needed shift in fundamental thinking necessary to make it possible to pull this world back from the brink of multiple disasters on ecological, cultural, political, and economic fronts.

  Robert Jensen

  Thinking, Political, Important

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• What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

  David Miliband

  Commitment, Political, Environmental

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• I could never get bored talking about him, he was my favourite player. I loved watching him because he did everything you'd want to see in a footballer. He could dictate the pace of a game; he could take it by the scruff of the neck and control it; he could score decisive goals; he could make the killer pass; he could switch the play, open teams up, slow the game down, quicken it up; whatever was needed. He would take the ball anywhere on the pitch He was such a selfless footballer, too Scholesy was the man, all right.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Player, Men

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• People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

  Robin Quivers

  Apology, Thinking, People

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• I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'

  Mike Pence

  Believe, Servant Leadership, Asks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My brother applied for work, but was told by the company that it had more employees than it needed. My brother said, "Don't worry. The little bit of work I do won't be noticed !!!"

  Milton Berle

  Brother, Worry, Littles

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• There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

  Juliette Binoche

  Children, Share, Unsaid

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• We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired.

  David McCullough

  Encouragement, Taken, Doors

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• The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Naked, Red, Middle

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• Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which we live.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Character, Age, Principles

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• There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Idiot, Guides, Creationism

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• The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Giving, Joy

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