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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain

Humanity, Common, Satan

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey

Life, Humor, Good

The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Winston Churchill

Quality, Audacity

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Michael Jordan

Love, Peace, Time

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Greatest, Sense, Wanted

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Happy, Yourself

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mahatma Gandhi

Evil, Wrong, Capital

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho

Reason, Loved, Loving

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Before, Learned, Process

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby

Father, Child, Times

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear, Away, Learn

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard

Beautiful, Away, Process

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne

Great, Trying, Country

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus

Faith, Time, Enough

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson

Change, Self, Often

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint Augustine

Love, Fear, Jealousy

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya

Mind, Heart, Speech

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Heraclitus

Good, Character, Effort

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Carl Jung

Sense, Calm, Leave

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine

God, Find, Others

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Chanakya

Good, Value, Fame

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith

Faith, Doubt, Working

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
Charles M. Schulz

Good, Makes, Feet

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard Dawkins

Religion, Thought, Might

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass

Done, Greatness, Ability

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein

Time, Great, Two

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
John Ruskin

Find, Shall, Schools

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
Carroll O'Connor

Character, Down, Old

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass

Time, Irony, Argument

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
Peter Drucker

Together, Possible, Turn

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