"The future stands in need of you in order to be born."
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"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
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"For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?"
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"We don't want women to really know men, because then they'll find out how much we need them."
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"Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back."
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"We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves."
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"It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins."
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"There's no question that a lot of Americans on both the right and the left are expressing some fears and frustrations about the dislocations brought on by globalisation. Many of those frustrations are legitimate and they need to be addressed."
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"We are all capable of achieving whatever we want and need."
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"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
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"Where love reigns, there's no need for laws."
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"Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety."
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"There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more."
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"No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority."
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"We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible."
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"Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating."
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"I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel."
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"There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able."
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"Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today."
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"I need to develop some patience - immediately."
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