"Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony."
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"You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid."
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"If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now."
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"A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out."
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"The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted."
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"The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them."
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"The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over."
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"If you want a friend you need to be a friend."
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"You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be"
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"As long as any man exists, there is some need of him."
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"The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them."
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"We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other."
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"From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you."
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"Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized."
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"There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves."
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"I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love."
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"Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck."
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"We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being."
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"We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma."
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"We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other."
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