"He that needs five thousand pound to live, Is full as poor as he that needs but five."
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"We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts."
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"The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?"
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"Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them."
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"When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin."
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"He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. [He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]"
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"Prayer is to vibrate, do the devotion, whatever it is, to whoever you believe in, Christ or Buddha or Krishna or any of them. You get the response depending on how much you need it."
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"The soule needs few things, the body many."
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"If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc."
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"I was able to put something back. I was able to be of help to [Frank Sinatra] when he needed my help - and he did need somebody's help."
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"We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want."
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"There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself."
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"I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me."
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"Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever."
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"Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other."
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"A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die."
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"I need to sleep, but fear to dream."
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"I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little."
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"Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning."
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"If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya"
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