"One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself."
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"But it's daylight," she said at last. "Vampires can't go out in the sun, everyone knows that!" Bones chuckled. "Right And we shrink back from crosses, can't travel over water, and always get staked in the end by the righteous slayer. Really, who'd be afraid of a creature like that? All you'd need is a Bible, a tanning bed, and some holy water to send us shivering to our dooms."
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"If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company."
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"But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you."
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"Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory."
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"Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different."
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"She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe."
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"Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred."
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"He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue."
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"If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!"
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"We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength."
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"The earth does not need new continents, but new men."
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"We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play."
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"If you really want it, you need to really work for it."
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"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me."
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"A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything."
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"Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England."
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"Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there."
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"Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment."
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"What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression"
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