"Punishment is a vital need of the human soul."
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"Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea."
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"I'm a family man. I always depend on my family when I am in dire need."
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"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."
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"Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion."
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"Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old."
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"Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest."
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"Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing."
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"Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes"
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"Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is."
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"Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs."
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"Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love."
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"If your Lord Supreme requests you to do something, rest assured he has already given you the capacity - even more than necessary - long before you actually need it."
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"To free our body from fear what we need is the glorious experience of the soul."
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"Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world."
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"It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world."
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"When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there."
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"That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually."
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"Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being."
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"I don't use specific brands really. It's just that for my skin, I need as high an SPF factor as I can get my hands on. That's the only rule."
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