"I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage."
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"All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for."
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"We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action."
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"A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident."
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"If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages."
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"Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?"
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"It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather."
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"When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you."
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"There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at."
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"It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God."
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"There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed."
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"It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good."
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"World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds."
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"May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body."
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"If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms."
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"God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision."
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"Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak."
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"Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect."
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"... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself."
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"I'm just a basketball player, you know? Just put me where you need me."
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