"[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally."
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"Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life"
"A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt."
"Our message of the day is service does not need a title."
"The key to growing a business is that you need to be meeting some segment of the consumer's needs. If you've got a small business and a product or service that is not popular, you simply have to change your product or service to be more popular."
"I am starting to realize that a lot of guys look up to me, ... Older guys, and even younger guys, are asking me questions and [they] ask me about how to handle situations. Im young, but that leadership role has been on me so I need to live up to it."
"I just need to be in a position where I can control the ball, make smart decisions, and do what I'm coached up to do."
"Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind."
"We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life."
"If you say you don't have time to do it once a day, then you're the one who probably needs it twice a day."
"Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe."
"What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess."
"I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen."
"If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait."
"Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec."
"All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place."
"And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
"Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in"
"To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label."
"I still just like everybody else need to meet quotas with my spins, with my buzz and make my way into the office. It has to be undeniable; the world has to know about you before Jay-Z makes a call."