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• Body and soul need new challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 28, 2014

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• You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.

  Neil Peart

  Distance, Endurance, Lasts

  "Marathon". Song by Neil Peart, October 29, 1985.

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• When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Unusual Things, People

  Interview with Charles Kohler, East Village Eye, 1968.

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• Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fashion, Confused, Mistake

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• You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypotheses may not. In the hypothesis you have postulated, chance intervenes largely. Here lies a dead rabbi; I should prefer a purely rabbinical explanation; not the imaginary mischances of an imaginary robber.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Lying, Reality, Interesting

  Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.2, Grove Press

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• I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

  P. D. James

  Struggle, Book, Wine

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.20, Vintage

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• If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then you're never going to understand what I'm really saying. Because you know what? You're going to shut down and close off before you hear me. If I'm threatening you, you're going to see it the way you need to see it so you can dismiss me.

  Tori Amos

  Coffee, Thinking, Looks

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• Those of you who are strong need to be there for those who have lost someone today. We have to be here for each other right now.

  Tori Amos

  Strong, Today, Lost

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• It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Political, Fundamentals, Political Systems

  "Poll: Most say Arroyo should go", www.cnn.com. July 11, 2005.

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• The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

  Simone Weil

  Sacred, Truth Is

  "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind".

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• Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for 35 years. We are like a sick patient who is in need of care, and they are increasing prices

  Muhammad Ali

  Years, Sick, Support

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• We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Entrepreneur, Leader, Moral

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• And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others is often more beneficial than is receiving help. . . . We need the give and the take, we need to belong. An ideology of extreme personal freedom can be dangerous because it encourages people to leave homes, jobs, cities and marriages in search of personal and professional fulfillment, thereby breaking the relationships that were probably their best hope for such fulfillment.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Jobs, Home, Caring

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• Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Broken Heart, Law, Broken

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 430), 1922.

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• We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.

  Sarah Palin

  Art, Cutting, Npr

  "Palin: Obama's State of Union Address Full of 'WTF' Moments". "On the Record" with Greta van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2011.

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• The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

  Frank Carlucci

  Political, Arabia, Crowns

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• Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

  Sharon Olds

  Thinking, Air, Years

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.

  Sharon Olds

  Book, Writing, Two

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Prayer, Practice, America

  "This week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.

  Michael Phelps

  Wall, Night, Race

  Michael Phelps (2016). “Beneath the Surface: My Story”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

  Kurt Lewin

  Maturity, Men, Self

  "The Research Center for Group Dynamics".

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• When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

  Jacques Audiard

  Writing, Work Out, Trying

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.

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• A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation, to bring our two worlds together. It was a century of failure. We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build

  Maurice Samuel

  Two, Forever, Tolerance

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• The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

  Charles Simic

  Beautiful, Art, World

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• The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

  Andrew Card

  Permission

  "White House: U.S. doesn't need U.N. permission on Iraq" by Jamie McIntyre, www.cnn.com. November 10, 2002.

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