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• With two women every week in England and Wales being killed by their partner or ex-partner, we need to act now to end domestic violence. I am only too pleased to add my name to the Real Man campaign for Women's Aid.

  Tom Aikens

  Real, Men, Names

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• Enemies and friends act like spiritual coaches. They round out the rough spots on Soul's unfoldment. The Mahanta (inner spiritual guide) teaches through others. So pay careful attention when sparks fly, because some important things in you - perhaps courage or forgiveness - needs some polish.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Soul, Enemy

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• Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on earth one was born, to become heir to Western civilization's ancestry, one need only pledge allegiance to reason and individual liberty-the civilized, life-affirming values that represent the "West at its best."

  Terri Runnels

  Life, Civilization, Individuality

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• Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Individuality, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

  Henry Rollins

  Left Alone, My Own, Left

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• I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

  Fiona Apple

  Kind, Problem, Indulge

  "I Don't Really Have A Plan". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 10, 2012.

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• You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Two, Community

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• I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Able, Quiet

  "'There’s No Place to Go But Up' — bell hooks and Maya Angelou in conversation". Interview with Maya Angelou, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 1998.

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• When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Working Alone, Levels

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• I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Song, Thinking, Trying

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

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• Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

  Eric Ries

  Odds, Opposites, People

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• There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Struggle, People

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• I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

  Laura Marling

  Who I Am, Isolation, Left Alone

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

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• To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Literature, Kind

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• Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

  Ernest Istook

  Children, Math, Technology

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• My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.

  Picabo Street

  Brother, Valleys, Sun

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• The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that just need to be shot. There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

  James Mattis

  Blow, Discipline, Enemy

  “Fiasco”, armedforcesjournal.com. August 1, 2006.

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• But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.

  Pablo Neruda

  Real, Hero, Self

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.475, Macmillan

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• I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I couldn't sleep for a week she was so cold.

  Sylvia Plath

  Real, Sleep, Two Of Me

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.141, Faber & Faber

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• For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, World

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• We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.

  Ernest Holmes

  Life, Power, Wind

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• To engage in any activity, the warrior needs to know what to expect, how to achieve the objective and whether or not he is capable of carrying out the proposed task.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• He needs both patience and speed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Speed

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• We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Mind

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• No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Fighting

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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