"One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer."
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"If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first."
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"Bears need people. People need bears."
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"We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink."
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"You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you."
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"What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government."
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"The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction."
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"I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful...With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon."
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"Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act."
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"Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you."
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"I sing the songs that people need to hear."
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"For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry."
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"If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation."
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"The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth."
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"People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed."
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"Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be."
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"Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful thing.”"
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"I like seafood in general. I feel when you have really good quality Canadian seafood; you don't really need to do much to it. It's just some of the best in the world. It also has this kind of briny, salty quality to it, that you don't have to season much. You can use the natural flavours of the ocean to your benefit."
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"Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness."
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"It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir."
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