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"Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?"
"Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action."
"There is no need to show your ability before everyone."
"The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained."
"We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion."
"No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs."
"The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are."
"Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us."
"Power over seems to be driving our very young species into a ditch because it's from an old competitive, "there may not be enough" kind of framework of scarcity. Power with is thinking abundantly as opposed to fearfully. Power with is hopefully where we're going - and where we need to go as a species in order to survive."
"One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions."
"The God of Love lives in a state of need."
"People need revelation, and then they need resolution."
"One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both."
"I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient."
"When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever."
"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
"The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most."
"All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is."
"To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material."
"I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft."
