"Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle."
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"The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament."
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"We need a science to save us from science."
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"[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation."
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"I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed."
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"Americans need rest, but do not know it."
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"You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own."
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"You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined."
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"We need people like me in the Labour party."
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"But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better."
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"No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me."
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"I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'"
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"I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it."
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"Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted, and what way may need to invent to help protect them."
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"The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve those problems."
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"I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it."
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"You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great."
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"As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it."
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"Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context."
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"I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God."
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