"My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living."
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"Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all."
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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
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"There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast."
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"Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within."
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"A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities."
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"If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others."
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"I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something."
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"Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong."
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"It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with."
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"You have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect...and so are you!"
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"Government is the enemy until you need a friend."
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"Death needs time for what it kills to grow in."
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"Time is what death needs to grow people in."
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"Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while."
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"If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within."
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"If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it."
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"Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled."
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"That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us."
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"My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?"
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