have need of

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God created differences, Winthrop avowed, so that “every man might have need of others, and from hence they might be all knit more nearly together in the Bonds of brotherly affection.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2018

Wilde sees such hero-worship as a dangerous delusion but also, more crucially, an unfair burden: “It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love,” he writes.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2018

As Mr. McCain put it: “Valor like his is hard to keep secret from men who have need of it.”

From New York Times • May 3, 2017

“Oh we do, Norbert. We will always have need of you. In fact, you'll start being reprinted once the Gaia exits the gate.”

From Nature • Jul. 28, 2015

I repaired to the market to see if any might have need of someone who could tell sums and lift.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson