"As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval."
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"If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business."
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"The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems."
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"But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration."
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"You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you."
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"It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute."
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"Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument."
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"If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm."
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"I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters."
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"Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell."
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"To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves."
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"You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns."
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"Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing."
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"Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
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"Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'"
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"I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being."
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"The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life."
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"Our bodies need real, fresh food to maintain health."
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"Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need."
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"Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like."
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