"I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one."
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"It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to start depopulating the military."
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"Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts."
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"The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire."
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"For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason."
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"When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled."
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"Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard."
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"That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen."
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"Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it."
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"It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm."
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"There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?"
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"One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape."
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"For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it."
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"you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will"
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"I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes."
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"some stories don't need telling"
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"There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so."
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"Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?"
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"Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology."
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"I think 'Hail to the Chief' needs a little bit fresher sound. I might put some gospel beats in 'Hail to the Chief.'"
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