"I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things."
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"Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible."
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"Faith is realizing that you always get what you need."
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"...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?"
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"When you most feel like giving up is when you most need to be keeping on."
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"The world doesn't need another Dell or Compaq."
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"I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison."
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"But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some nature hindering species, and resisting it, but because of the lack of a nature suitable for the multiplication of species; for species is a natural thing, and therefore needs a natural medium; but in a vacuum nature does not exist."
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"Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared"
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"There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation."
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"Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured."
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"As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible."
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"What we need is to use what we have."
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"To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard."
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"I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem."
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"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
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"Oh, my bad ... I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot I only exist when you need me for something."
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"What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels."
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"I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had."
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"The hundred parts of the body are all complete in their places. Which should one prefer? Do you like them all equally? Are they all servants? Are they unable to control one another and need a ruler? Or do they become rulers and servants in turn? Is there any true ruler other than themselves?"
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