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"What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer"
"Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight."
"If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love."
"Integrity needs no rules."
"Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
"Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing."
"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."
"Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care."
"My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television."
"My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'"
"A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?"
"I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't."
"All the resources we need are in the mind."
"The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it."
"One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator."
"I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient."
"To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens."
"She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all.""
"I guess every superhero need his theme music."
"Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it."
