"The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish."
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"The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame."
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"When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity."
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"Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb."
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"Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity."
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"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive."
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"Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated ... what is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow man and from nature."
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"I don't use no cologne, none of that. I just use cocoa butter and that's it. Everything I need is natural besides going to the shower and taking soap and shampoo and conditioner."
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"The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever."
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"There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either."
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"Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled."
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"Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day."
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"The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television."
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"Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed."
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"Every profound spirit needs a mask."
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"To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do."
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"My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast."
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"All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you."
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"Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply."
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"I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me."
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