"I'm a big woman. I need big hair."
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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
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"It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts."
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"Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you."
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"John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybodys calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth."
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"So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history"
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"The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known."
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"Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy."
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"Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away."
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"There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan."
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"The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation."
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"That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it."
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"Never make a decision when you need to pee."
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"Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly"
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"Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery."
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"What I need most of all is color, always, always."
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"The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever."
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"Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full."
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"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
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"You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty."
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