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"None of this seems to affect the leadership, that people don't go out to vote, that they don't feel the need to go vote, that they already feel disenfranchised. It's not just Obama's fault or Clinton's or whomever's, it's all of them, the whole collection of clowns I've had to sit through."
"No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed."
"For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again."
"A healthy nature needs no God or immortality"
"Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly."
"Every man needs a place to go to."
"God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security."
"A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver"
"What is fear of need but need itself?"
"In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor."
"Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to."
"If one is honest there is no need to remember."
"You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare."
"I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it."
"To see Earth fully we already need to love it"
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want"
"For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue."
"Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube."
"Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed"
"To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country."
