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"I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from our throats," to borrow Ralph Waldo Emerson's parody of elite fears that inspired early advocates of public mass education."
"I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible."
"We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of your eyes. You need to think about them a little, to see what the consequences are."
"The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts."
"Kids need somewhere to go, so they're not bored on the street."
"Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music."
"Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another. He was just some Joseph looking for a manger."
"I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability."
"We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament."
"I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be."
"I never thought I could travel unless I had a wife or someone to share it with. You don't necessarily need that, but I am the type of person that wants to share a lot."
"Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry."
"A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need."
"You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give."
"We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they."
"In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident."
"There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line."
"The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams."
"All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity."
"I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad."
