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"Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain."
"A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence."
"I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything."
"It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives."
"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed."
"I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias."
"Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape."
"You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?"
"Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending."
"Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are."
"A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet."
"Labour completely accepts and recognises the vote to leave the EU. The question is what is the agenda for that process and that needs to be held to account in Parliament now and that means it needs to be open to a vote."
"The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you."
"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate."
"Get your personal needs met, once and for all; if you have unmet needs, you'll attract others in the same position."
"Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth."
"We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment."
"Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin."
"God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us"
"Got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing... living proof there's a God if you need a reason."
