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• The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

  Elizabeth Warren

  Hard Work, Class, America

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• Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

  Abraham Maslow

  Music, Peace, Motivation

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• Find a need and fill it.

  Ruth Stafford Peale

  Inspirational, Making A Difference, Charity

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir (2001). “The Yosemite”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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• I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

  Ani DiFranco

  Fighting, Rolling, Occupy Movement

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• Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

  Leo Burnett

  Dream, Agency, Lines

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• I don't need to be liked.

  John Malkovich

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• People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

  Ani DiFranco

  Real, Order, People

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• You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.

  Christian Bale

  Dog, Dark, Deserve More

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• We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn't mean I have to be insecure.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mean, Insecure, Insecurity

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from May 16, 2015

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• It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

  Bob Geldof

  Simple, People, Politics

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  A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

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• If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

  Adolf Hitler

  Truth, Philosophy, Winning

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Silence

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Life, Motivational

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

  Tom Hanks

  Hair, Guy, Dimes

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• In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.

  Robert Lawson Shaw

  Music, Luxury, Focus

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• I need you because I love you.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Romantic, Disappointment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. Allah is sufficient for judgment and He subhanahu wa ta'ala is a perfect Judge. We are not.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Giving, Perfect, Judging

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Oct 07, 2014

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  I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

  Ray Charles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Plowboy Interview with Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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• To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Block, Mean, Government

  Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.63, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.

  Bill McKibben

  Money, People, Community

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• I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

  Alice Waters

  Children, Believe, Land

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