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...I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

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He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later. Ernest Hemingway
Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it. William Sessions
George Bancroft quote: "Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no..."
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. George Bancroft
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished. John Stuart Mill
But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life. John Piper
Virginia Woolf quote: "Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes..."
Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning? Virginia Woolf
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school. Jacques Derrida
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There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short. Mary J. Blige
I walk in this gardenholding the hands of dead friends. Old age came quickly for my frosted generation, cold, cold, cold they died so silently. Derek Jarman
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Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, ... Edna St. Vincent Millay
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In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past. Jodi Picoult
She had a new feeling, the feeling of danger; on which a new remedy rose to meet it, the idea of an inner self or, in other words, of concealment. Henry James
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If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win. Shelley Long
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I would be better at my job if I were technical. Sheryl Sandberg