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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.