"Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears."
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"The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance."
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"You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them."
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"Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good."
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"All of us, the great and the little have need of each other."
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"In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal. A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women's movement, for instance, becoming "support-groups" or therapy groups."
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"Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say."
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"I find in myself a need to get very away."
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"[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help."
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"We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that 'tis only by our experience of their constant conjunction, we can arrive at any knowledge of this relation."
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"Writers are used to being re-created, and need it."
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"I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"
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"You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with."
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"I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention."
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"People who seek attention, need all the help they can get."
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"As intuition grows, the need to make problems and see complications starts to dwindle."
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"You don't need others to change in order to be happy."
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"When you stay in the moment, you have all the time in the world, and whatever needs to be done will be completed in the exact right time."
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"One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it."
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"I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it."
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