"Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience."
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"The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated."
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"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me."
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"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."
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"Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk."
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"When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will"
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"This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't."
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"I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there."
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"Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead."
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"What America needs is a political revolution."
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"If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for."
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"I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity."
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"You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness."
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"My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that."
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"A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success."
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"But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all."
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"You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture."
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"The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal."
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"I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me."
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"When you’re young you just run, but you come back to what you need."
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