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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

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

We no longer have need of that quaint hypothesis.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2015

“If you ask the Citadel for more maesters ...” “I mean to. We’ll have need of every one. Aemon Targaryen is not so easily replaced, however.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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