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Anthony Burgess quote: "We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads..."
We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet. Anthony Burgess
James Patterson quote: "Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic..."
Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating. James Patterson
...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me. Evelyn Waugh
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing... But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion. Audre Lorde
It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity. Alain de Botton
She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies. Susan Sontag
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."
The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music. Kurt Vonnegut
Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. Elie Wiesel
One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ...The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful.... L. Ron Hubbard
I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died. Charles Bukowski
Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt," said Malfoy coolly. It was Harry's turn to laugh."Yeah, right!" he said. "I will give you this - prophecy, is it? And you'll just let us skip off home, will you? J. K. Rowling
Henry Fielding quote: "I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he..."
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. Henry Fielding
Aimee Mann quote: "All that I need now is someone with the brains and the..."
All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want. Aimee Mann
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. Aristotle
...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING. Jack Kerouac

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