Needs Quotes
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Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceived and ultimately false psychological needs, such as his need for self-display, luxuries and the like. Twenty percent of humanity consumes eighty percent of the world's wealth and is accountable for an equal percentage of the world's ecological catastrophes.
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That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.
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I don't want to know who he's been with or how many women. I do want to know that my man is not a virgin, because I want to know that he knows what he's doing. But I don't need to know how he's learned it.
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It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.
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Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.
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Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.
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Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.
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We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]
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The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.
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There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
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It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.
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Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.
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When you get out of college, you think, "I've learned all I need to learn."
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Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.
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Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.
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There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.
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We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.
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We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs.
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There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.
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It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'
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There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.
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Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself made this clear to his followers. He said you should not accept those things I taught out of respect for me, but rather through investigation by yourself.
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Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them.
