"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."

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"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."

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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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"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 pure hand needs no glove to cover it."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs."

Marvin Harris, American Scientist

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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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"Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?"

Leslie Fiedler, American Critic

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"We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled."

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

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"I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation."

Andrew Cuomo, American Politician

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"I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late."

Jim Diamond, British Singer

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"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."

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