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41 " For some reason we feel we should be perfect, and forget that we learn through our mistakes. Our need to be perfect and our need to control the outcome of events work together to keep us petrified when we think about making a change or attempting a new challenge. "
― Susan Jeffers , Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
42 " One aspect of perfection, after all, it stands to reason, will be that our need for imperfection will cease. Or, perhaps more precisely: that imperfection itself will cease to have meaning. "
― Ron Currie Jr. , Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles
43 " Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more about one of modern America’s truly significant artistic and cultural movements. It helps us to acknowledge the complexity of African American life at a time when the nation’s culture was taking on a recognizable shape, when race was becoming less of a crushing burden and more of a challenge to progressive people and their ideals, and when cities and their inhabitants symbolized the end of the past and the seductiveness of the new. "
― Clement Alexander Price , Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
44 " While most of us are comfortable acknowledging that luck plays a role in what we do, we have difficulty assessing its role after the fact. Once something has occurred and we can put together a story to explain it, it starts to seem like the outcome was predestined. Statistics don't appeal to our need to understand cause and effect, which is why they are so frequently ignored or misinterpreted. Stories, on the other hand, are a rich means to communicate precisely because they emphasize cause and effect. "
45 " I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more. "
― Salman Rushdie , The Ground Beneath Her Feet
46 " In terms of our elected officials, I think we need to ask...: How far should we go with our need to know before we completely veer off into the personal and the private and leave behind any chance of having a legitimate debate or discussion or discourse about the issues at hand? "
― John Lewis , Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
47 " I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant. "
48 " Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness. "
49 " Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. "
