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needs (nēdz)

adverb

of necessity; necessarily: with must he must needs obey

Etymology: ME nedes < OE nedes, nydes < nied (see need) + -s, gen. & adv. suffix

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish, sincerely and energetically. See Marx 558:14.

-Bakunin, Mikhail Alekseyevich

   For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again: neither doth God respect any person.

-Bible (Old Testament)

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of todayare no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages wrought by the technology of yesterday.

-Gabor, Dennis

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