Needed Quotes
3444 quotes by 2533 authors
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But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and…
— Max Born
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Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did…
— Michael Crichton
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This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the…
— Steve Perry
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Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.
— P.D. James
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Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no…
— Carlos Castaneda
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No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore…
— Bianca Jagger
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
— Joseph Campbell
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God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed…
— J. G. Holland
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In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed,…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my…
— Henry Ford
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The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.
— Isaac Asimov
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If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it…
— George Polya
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The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and…
— James Madison
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How much soccer training is it needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine. Setting long and short-term…
— Pele
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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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