"...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support."
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"I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives."
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"In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself."
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"There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort... The need of work is in me."
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"We need the books that affect us like a disaster"
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"All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One."
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"You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it."
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"We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders."
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"Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'"
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"People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high."
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"(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying."
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"Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant."
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"Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the early computers, and each generation of computers reflects the needs of the programming languages of the preceding generation."
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"Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds."
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"The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all."
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"Boys do what they want to do, Men do what they need to do."
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"All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company."
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"I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will."
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"The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something."
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"If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to."
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