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"No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person."
"When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning."
"It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them."
"The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think."
"I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds."
"The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life."
"If anybody needs any help with anything, I'm prepared to help."
"People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out."
"The less you need, the more you attract."
"If you are a good giver, you will be great getter. The less you need, the more you attract."
"You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture."
"You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls."
"Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song."
"In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you’d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only way to get rid of her is to send her into a parallel world from which she can never return; otherwise she would stay with the doctor forever."
"Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways."
"I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does."
"We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is."
"I don't need to be enlightned. I have a killfile."
"If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising."
"We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated."
