"The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis."

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"The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis."

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"No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Who really needs a new album from me?"

Elton John, English Musician

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"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."

Alan Turing, English Mathematician

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"McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base."

Chuck Todd, American Journalist

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"But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen."

John Trumbull, American Artist

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"There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair."

Frank Howard Clark, American Writer

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"A star needs all the rest she can get."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

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"Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty."

Innovation

"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."

Arrogance

"Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense."

Evolution

"The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations."

Evolution

"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question."

Question

"When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown."

People

"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."

Life

"We pass through this world but once."

World

"Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival."

Superiority

"In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."

Time