"From time to time historians need to be shocked."
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"A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need."
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"Our need will be the real creator."
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"A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants"
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"You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy."
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"For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay."
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"People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money."
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"Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors."
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"In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not."
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"Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated."
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"We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information."
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"Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion."
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"It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation."
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"Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him."
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"The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country."
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"the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer"
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"I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!"
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"We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands."
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"Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store: You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more."
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"We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans."
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