"An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement."
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"The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it."
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"I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody."
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"If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive."
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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"Every action needs to be prompted by a motive."
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"For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves."
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"In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best."
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"Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building was completed."
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"Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And"
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"Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
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"It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet."
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"All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide."
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"Pause and remember - The only person you need to believe in you is - you!"
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"I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe."
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"From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs."
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"Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect."
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"There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future."
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"Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need"
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"Don't think about what you want, think about what the world needs, and strive to fill that gap. Success is a game of inches."
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