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  • As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again.

    Real   Believe   Sleep  
    "George Washington Carver: His Life & Faith in His Own Words". Book by William J. Federer, 2003.
  • Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.

    "How We Can Bring About Change" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.
  • No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature.

    The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.
  • The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

    Mistake   Years   Worry  
  • To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

  • There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

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

    Technology   Needs   Gaps  
    1972 'The Closing Circle', in Technology.
  • Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

    Men   Mind   Needs  
    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work.

    Fun   Men   Choices  
  • I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.

    "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.
  • Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

    Needs   Eating   Mating  
    James Paul Gee (2005). “Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul: Pleasure and Learning”, p.29, Common Ground
  • Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

    Men   Silence   Needs  
    Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.28, Vintage
  • Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.

    Thinking   People   Needs  
  • At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

  • 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.

    Missing   Trying   Needs  
    "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society", (Vol. 146, no. 1, p. 115), March 2002.
  • I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

  • 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's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech in Strasbourg, October 22, 2013.
  • It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

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

    "All the lonely people" by Roger Ebert, November 10, 2010.
  • To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.

    Mean   Men   Thinking  
  • Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

    Attitude   Design   Needs  
  • It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

  • Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962

    John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.1250, Penguin UK
  • Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity

  • Everyone—all of us, every last person on God’s earth—deserves decent shelter. It speaks to the most basic of human needs—our home—the soil from which all of us, every last person, either blossom or wither. We each have need of food, clothing, education, medical care, and companionship; but first, we must have a place to live and grow.

    Home   Needs   Earth  
  • [Pope Francis] comes to that conviction [of family crisis] as a pastor, not as Brad Wilcox or Charles Murray. So he wants to challenge the Church to find pastoral responses to that crisis that meet real human needs.

    Source: eppc.org
  • 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.

  • Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

    John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin
  • The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.

  • [Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

    Men   Needs   Capacity  
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