"There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation."
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"When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man."
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"Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use."
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"The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour."
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"You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart."
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"Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work."
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"Superman don't need no seat belt."
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"You want a CEO that understands they need to build a team around them that's sharper and smarter than they are."
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"Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore?"
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"On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need."
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"Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?"
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"Our breath is the most precious substance in our lives, and yet we totally take for granted when we exhale that our next breath will be there. If we did not take another breath, we would not last 3 minutes. Now if the Power that created us has given us enough breath to last for as long as we shall live, can we not trust that everything else we need will also be supplied?"
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"The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work."
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"An inner process stands in need of outward criteria."
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"The amount of money one needs is terrifying."
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"Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind."
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"Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs."
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"Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future."
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"Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all."
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"I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me."
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