""Come at once," she had written to him. "Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you before. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come at once""
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"There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion."
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"The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy."
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"Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit."
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"There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism."
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"We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws."
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"But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you're looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets."
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"I know I just need to be me."
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"I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet."
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"You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body."
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"No, Sherlock doesn't need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart."
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"Who needs girls when you've got comics?"
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"I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction."
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"The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is."
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"It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association."
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"The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns."
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"A functioning eco-system is a human need."
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"Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies as high-speed rail instead of maximizing fossil fuel use, and solar energy, is not "relentless resource extraction.""
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"You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone."
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"Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment."
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