"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich."
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"The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs."
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"Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will."
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"I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind."
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"...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe."
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"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."
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"Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women."
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"All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life."
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"It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness."
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"Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it."
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"We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need"
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"Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet."
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"People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms."
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"You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a 'Tom Ford' jacket? What do I believe in?"
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"The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know."
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"You seek problems because you need their gifts."
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"Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow."
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"If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be."
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"I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think."
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"I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers."
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