"We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet."
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"I like simplicity; I don't need luxury."
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"What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point."
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"Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up, we can't ask for equal pay, you have to be paid on performance and the results you deliver."
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"I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time."
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"Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing."
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"At times like this, adults need a drink"
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"The living need charity more than the dead."
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"Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state."
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"The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all."
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"My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience."
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"Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them?"
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"Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?"
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"It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart."
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"Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness"
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"If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future."
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"Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined."
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"Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep and intimate as though it has but one object, yet it is ready to be centered on any person, to flow to any point of need."
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"What each one of us fundamentally needs is that inner peace which is to be discovered solely within ourselves, which no-one else can give, which the world with all its resources, can never supply."
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"They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure."
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