"They say Im demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes."
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"Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After."
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"We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to."
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"I guess some stories do not need telling."
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"Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it."
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"The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible."
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"The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed."
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"An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes."
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"Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families."
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"People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth."
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"Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination."
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"The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you."
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"I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do – if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles."
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"Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss."
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"If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to."
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"In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended."
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"The common denominator is that we all need help."
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"What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation."
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"Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often."
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"We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet."
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