"You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!"
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"In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part."
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"... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position."
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"We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers."
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"One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you."
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"The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it."
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"We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures."
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"If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need?"
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"We don't need more #contentmarketing, we need more relevant content."
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"Everyone needs a chance to evolve."
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"I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like."
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"I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank."
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"I need to just find my own peace."
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"There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit."
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"It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . ."
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"Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith."
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"Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!"
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"There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
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"It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."
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"Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed"
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