"What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed."
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"If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes."
"We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated."
"I need music like I need water."
"Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her."
"My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him."
"If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net."
"True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need."
"No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light."
"When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves."
"If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords."
"Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money."
"Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you."
"At the moment I would like to emphasize the need for vocational training, for non-formal education in Burma to help all those young people who have suffered from a bad education. They have to be trained to earn their living. They have to have enough education vocational training to be able to set up respectable lives for themselves."
"You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion."
"Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it."
"Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them."
"You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it."
"If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety."
"Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace."