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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

Friendship, Small, Weather

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha

Life, Good, Wisdom

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Him, Free, Guilt

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Tomorrow, Happen, Why

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

Good, Deep, Book

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Life, Work, Anger

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Government, Alone

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark Twain

Nothing, Habits, Reforming

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller

Teacher, Self, Person

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Sai Baba

Experience, Spiritual, Different

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

Work, Art, Guilty

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
Audrey Hepburn

Life, Nobody, Tea

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

Best, Alone, Failure

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn

Education, Someone, Him

Your friend is your needs answered.
Khalil Gibran

Friend, Answered

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Cesar Chavez

Forget, Enough, Cannot

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Beauty, Nature, Strength

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rich, Consumer, Expensive

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lifetime, Thank, Faults

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller

Alone, Loneliness, Artist

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
Marilyn Monroe

Fun, Yourself, Past

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
Marilyn Monroe

Feeling, Real, Stars

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
Marilyn Monroe

Alone, Woman, She

How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
Marilyn Monroe

Girl, Sex, Symbol

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Abdul Kalam

Success, Enjoy, Necessary

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Billy Graham

Great, Spiritual, Two

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Simple, Lack

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus

Children, Social, Rule

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