"Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds."
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"The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one."
"We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness."
"When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help."
"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
"Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love."
"Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have."
"One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be."
"To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich."
"There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on what works, what doesn't, and what really has an impact, recognizing you're never going to do away entirely with gun violence"
"The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden."
"You don't need people's opinion on a fact."
"Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story. We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death. We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are."
"My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight."
"In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."
"Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."
"We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past."
"My husband is from Venezuela and he cries when he needs to cry!"
"You do the things that need to be done according to priority."
"Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender"