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• Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

  David Guterson

  Needs, Literature, Addresses

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• While civilization is more than a high material living standard, it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or in an atmosphere of resignation and hopelessness. Therefore the end objectives of solar system exploration are social objectives in the sense that they relate to, or are dictated by, present and future human needs.

  Krafft Arnold Ehricke

  Space, Civilization, Atmosphere

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

  Irving Langmuir

  Needs, Benefits, Mankind

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• Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Military, War, Cutting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Love Is, Men, Self

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement”, p.181, Main Street Books

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• If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it.

  Edwin Land

  Missing, Trying, Needs

  "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society", (Vol. 146, no. 1, p. 115), March 2002.

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• Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they’re always strangely drawn back… because there’s nothing that can compare to seeing the raw reality of the basic human need for survival. It disgusts and inspires

  Dan Eldon

  Reality, Challenges, Inspire

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• The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Needs, Gaps

  1972 'The Closing Circle', in Technology.

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• Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human fallibility and reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable human needs for order and pleasure.

  Janet Malcolm

  Agreement, Hands, Order

  "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, 1989.

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• Solidarity is a beautiful word because it means that you reach out to those who are different from you and who have to cope with different circumstances because we recognize that we all share the same human needs and same values. It is the values that count most of all. The value of freedom of thought, the value of democratic practices, the value of respect for your fellow human beings.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Beautiful, Mean, Practice

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech in Strasbourg, October 22, 2013.

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• Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance

  Jackson Pollock

  Memories, Acceptance, Order

  "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 121, 1990.

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• The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.

  Gao Xingjian

  Listening, Needs, Language

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• The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak to vital human needs, interests and desires, and therefore will be persuasive to many and ultimately most people. But this is a very different matter from deciding to put forward only those ideas presumed (accurately or not) to be compatible with what most people already believe.

  Ellen Willis

  Believe, Ideas, People

  Ellen Willis (2000). “Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

  John Ziman

  Real, Discipline, Intellectual

  "Why must scientists become more ethically sensitive than they used to be?" by John Ziman, Science, December 4, 1998.

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• Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

  Roger Ebert

  Needs, Fundamentals, Married

  "All the lonely people" by Roger Ebert, November 10, 2010.

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• While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.

  Anais Nin

  Mother, Father, People

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• Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sleep, Night, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage

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• religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.

  Georgia Harkness

  Worst Enemy, Religion, Needs

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• India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Spiritual, Real, Ambition

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• Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Choices, Balance, Society

  "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Plowboy Interview with Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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• Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration?

  Thomas Merton

  Blessed, Healing, Reflection

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.44, Macmillan

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• To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Love, Flower, Blessing

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• Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Real, Grace, Energy

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• We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faith-based response to human need.

  Simone Campbell

  People, Suffering, Reform

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• Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.

  Karl-Henrik Robert

  Inspiring, Dad, Rain

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