"One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong."
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"I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me."
"He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something."
"You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, than see them better than they are, and make them that way."
"Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world."
"Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him."
"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
"And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning."
"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."
"The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd."
"I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else."
"A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph."
"The world needs banking but it does not need banks."
"Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact."
"We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts."
"Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do."
"Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation."
"The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me."
"When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others."
"I'm vegetarian so eating right definitely gives me the energy you need."