"We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things."
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"If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions."
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"Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs."
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"We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else"
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"I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe. I have all that I need."
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"I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be done."
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"Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you."
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"The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do."
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"We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need."
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"If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry."
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"We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without."
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"We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness"
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"We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet."
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"We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind."
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"The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach."
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"The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift."
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"What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you...We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly."
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"Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded"
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"When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little."
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"One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself."
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