Quotes about Needs

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This party comes from the grass roots. It has grown from the soil of the people’s hard necessities.

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The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.

Henry Beston

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I am dying of thirst by the side of the fountain.

Charles d’Orléans

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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was there ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the streets and drifts across the dun-colored houses…. What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?

Arthur Conan Doyle

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We don’t like flowers that do
not wilt; they must die, and nine
she-camel hairs aid memory.

Marianne Moore

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Now good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!

William Shakespeare