"We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime."
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"We're on the computers, phones and tablets all day long, sometimes you just need to escape from the screens."
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"The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need."
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"Common sense needs constant reappraisal."
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"This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together."
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"The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits."
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"My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits."
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"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."
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"Communism is something that comes from the classics of Marxism that talked of a modern society we should aspire to. One that is truly fair where relations of monetary exchange are not the priority but rather one where peoples' needs could be satisfied."
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"There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company."
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"The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought."
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"All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels."
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"The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need."
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"You need to either create a slurry in a cold liquid, which also works with cornstarch, or you've got to do your gravy in a very wide pan and kind of scatter the flour over the top and then very quickly whisk it in."
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"I feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections."
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"Its scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are."
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change."
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"You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life."
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"We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow"
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"You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract."
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