"As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling."
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"What we need is a generation of peace."
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"All I'm saying is that sooner of later, you'll have to come to terms with yourself. You can't wish away the vampire in you, and you shouldn't keep atoning for it. You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it. Not to me, to your mum, or to anyone."
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"He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation."
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"The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning."
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"God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion."
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"Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
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"Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want"
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"Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation."
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"Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work."
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"Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny."
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"Your neighbor is the man who needs you."
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"For me, it's always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere - and it's kind of like a need of mine."
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"I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not."
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"Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?"
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"Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there"
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"When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing."
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"John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof."
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"It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about."
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"I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures."
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