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Necessity has no law. Votes: 4

Oliver Cromwell

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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. Votes: 4

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. Votes: 4

Karl Marx

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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. Votes: 4

Samuel Richardson

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Nature means Necessity. Votes: 3

Philip James Bailey

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Necessity dispenseth with decorum. Votes: 3

Thomas Carlyle

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Necessity knows no law. Votes: 3

Aesop

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Necessity is God's veil. Votes: 3

Simone Weil

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Necessity knows no rules. Votes: 3

August Strindberg

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Necessity knows no Sunday. Votes: 3

Agnes Repplier

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Necessity does everything well. Votes: 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Necessity, mother of invention. Votes: 3

William Wycherley

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Necessity urges desperate measures. Votes: 3

Miguel de Cervantes

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Necessity inspires the fatal thought. Votes: 3

Vittorio Alfieri

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Necessity, the mother of invention. Votes: 3

George Farquhar

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Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness. Votes: 3

Ron Suskind

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Necessity makes dastards valiant men. Votes: 3

Robert Herrick

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Necessity is a violent school-mistress. Votes: 3

Michel de Montaigne

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Necessity is our quickest excuse. Votes: 3

Benjamin Franklin

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Necessity is stronger than duty. Votes: 3

Seneca the Younger

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Necessity... the mother of invention. Votes: 3

Plato

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Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right. Votes: 3

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Necessity makes even the timid brave. Votes: 3

Sallust

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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason. Votes: 3

Luc de Clapiers

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Necessity is the author of change. Votes: 3

Tim Hansel

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Necessity, thou mother of the world! Votes: 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Necessity is the ethnicity of truth. Votes: 3

Kedar Joshi

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Necessity does not submit to debate. Votes: 3

Giuseppe Garibaldi

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Necessity never made a good bargain. Votes: 3

Benjamin Franklin

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Necessity is stronger far than art. Votes: 3

Aeschylus

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Necessity is a guardian in Nature. Votes: 3

Leonardo da Vinci

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Necessity makes heroes of us all. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Necessity is the spur of genius. Votes: 3

Honore de Balzac

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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon Votes: 3

Livy

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Necessity is literally the mother of invention. Votes: 3

Plato

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I have found nothing stronger than Necessity. Votes: 3

Euripides

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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Necessity is often the mother of balls Votes: 3

Nora Roberts

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Necessity is the mother of taking chances. Votes: 3

Mark Twain

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Necessity makes an honest man a knave. Votes: 3

Daniel Defoe

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Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve. Votes: 3

Euripides

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Necessity has the face of a dog. Votes: 3

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Necessity is the mother of all invention. Votes: 3

Albert Einstein

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Necessity knows no law except to conquer. Votes: 3

Publilius Syrus

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Necessity is often the spur to genius. Votes: 3

Honore de Balzac

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Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. Votes: 3

Horace

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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure. Votes: 3

Luc de Clapiers

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Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. Votes: 3

Luc de Clapiers

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Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children. Votes: 3

Timothy Dwight V

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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention. Votes: 3

Plato

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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Votes: 3

Leonardo da Vinci

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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich. Votes: 3

Tacitus

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Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things. Votes: 3

Pliny the Younger

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Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it. Votes: 3

Publilius Syrus

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Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. Votes: 3

Quintus Curtius Rufus

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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. Votes: 3

Walter Scott

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Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same. Votes: 3

Benjamin Franklin

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If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father. Votes: 3

Alex Faickney Osborn

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The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love. Votes: 3

Richard B. Garnett

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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration. Votes: 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate. Votes: 3

John Milton

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Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. Votes: 3

William Cowper

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Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy Votes: 3

Joseph Joubert

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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones. Votes: 3

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. Votes: 3

Michael Josephson

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Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws. Votes: 3

Michel de Montaigne

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Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about. Votes: 3

Willard Van Orman Quine

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Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World. Votes: 3

Richard B. Garnett

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Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity. Votes: 3

Epicurus

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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention. Votes: 3

William Shenstone

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Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. Votes: 3

Joseph Conrad

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Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. Votes: 3

William Faulkner

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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us. Votes: 3

Philip James Bailey

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. Votes: 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. Votes: 3

Francis Quarles

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Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. Votes: 3

E. B. White

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The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was. Votes: 3

Rachel Hartman

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Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. Votes: 3

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? Votes: 3

Thomas Huxley

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Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision. Votes: 3

Margaret Barber

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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. Votes: 2

Edward Abbey

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Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. Votes: 2

John McCain

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If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God. Votes: 2

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Votes: 2

Thomas A. Edison

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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. Votes: 2

Baruch Spinoza

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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. Votes: 2

Emily Dickinson

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All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism. Votes: 2

Saint Basil

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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. Votes: 2

Raymond Chandler

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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Votes: 2

Carl Jung

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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. Votes: 2

Ernst Mach

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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Votes: 2

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. Votes: 2

John F. Kennedy

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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Votes: 2

Jacques Ellul

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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. Votes: 2

Ayn Rand

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And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. Votes: 2

Arne Jacobsen

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We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. Votes: 2

Isabel Allende

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In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. Votes: 2

Albert Camus

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Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. Votes: 2

Phyllis George

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. Votes: 2

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water. Votes: 2

Ray Charles

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When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born. Votes: 2

Charles Krauthammer

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Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God. Votes: 2

Annie Besant

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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. Votes: 2

J. K. Rowling

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Chance and necessity. Votes: 0

Jacques Monod

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Accident is veiled necessity. Votes: 0

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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And nature must obey necessity. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Fate and necessity are unconquerable. Votes: 0

Joseph Joubert

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Characters are born from necessity. Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini

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We make allowance for necessity. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Out of necessity comes genius. Votes: 0

Pam Grier

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Beauty is a social necessity. Votes: 0

James Goldsmith

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Pardon is granted to necessity. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Make a virtue of necessity. Votes: 0

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Invention is the mother of necessity. Votes: 0

Thorstein Veblen

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Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity. Votes: 0

Gioachino Rossini

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Everything that happens, happens of necessity. Votes: 0

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Not even Ares battles against necessity. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. Votes: 0

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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The force of necessity is irresistible. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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Mothers are the necessity of invention. Votes: 0

Bill Watterson

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Power is the recognition of necessity. Votes: 0

Abraham Rotstein

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Physical contact is a human necessity. Votes: 0

David Byrne

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Freedom is the recognition of necessity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Engels

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Chance is as relentless as necessity. Votes: 0

Simon Blackburn

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Art is far feebler than necessity. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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Stern is the visage of necessity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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Poetry is a necessity of life, Votes: 0

C.D. Wright

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All government is an ugly necessity. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Good writers are of necessity rare. Votes: 0

George Henry Lewes

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Not even the gods fight against necessity. Votes: 0

Simonides of Ceos

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Plurality should not be assumed without necessity. Votes: 0

William of Ockham

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Plurality should not be posited without necessity. Votes: 0

William of Occam

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Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity. Votes: 0

William of Ockham

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity Votes: 0

Pindar

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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Money is a necessity; so is dirt. Votes: 0

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. Votes: 0

Euripides

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Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Votes: 0

Thomas A. Edison

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Discontent is the first necessity of progress Votes: 0

Thomas Alva Edison

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Great men are never cruel without necessity. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. Votes: 0

Miguel de Cervantes

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Ability and necessity dwell near each other. Votes: 0

Pythagoras

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Men are a luxury, not a necessity. Votes: 0

Cher

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Power is the near neighbour of necessity. Votes: 0

Pythagoras

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All things happen by virtue of necessity. Votes: 0

Democritus

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History is at once freedom and necessity. Votes: 0

Antonio Gramsci

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Imitation is a necessity of human nature. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. Votes: 0

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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The gods do not fight against necessity. Votes: 0

Simonides of Ceos

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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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No use saying necessity is making a mistake. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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A wise man never refuses anything to necessity. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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Art is not a luxury, but a necessity. Votes: 0

Rebecca West

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In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable. Votes: 0

Bhagat Singh

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Plurality is not to be posited without necessity. Votes: 0

William of Ockham

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Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity. Votes: 0

Barbara Boxer

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Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity. Votes: 0

William of Ockham

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Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity. Votes: 0

Bob Saget

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Art is a luxury but also a necessity. Votes: 0

Edwidge Danticat

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There ought to be a law against necessity. Votes: 0

Yip Harburg

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To live intensely is a basic human necessity. Votes: 0

Jessica Zafra

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I now see the necessity of a beginning. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature. Votes: 0

Dale Carnegie

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No one will ever make necessity not happen. Votes: 0

Anne Carson

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Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin. Votes: 0

John Calvin

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'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. Votes: 0

Joseph Conrad

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Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence. Votes: 0

Desmond Tutu

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The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation. Votes: 0

Simone Weil

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The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity. Votes: 0

Max McKeown

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All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives. Votes: 0

Evelyn Underhill

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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends Votes: 0

Coco Chanel

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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity. Votes: 0

Lincoln Kirstein

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Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. Votes: 0

Arnold H. Glasow

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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention Votes: 0

Andy Hargreaves

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War is only an invention, not a biological necessity. Votes: 0

Margaret Mead

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Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity. Votes: 0

Marisa Miller

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All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Education is an organic necessity of a human being. Votes: 0

Horace Mann

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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. Votes: 0

Dante Alighieri

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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity. Votes: 0

Rita Mae Brown

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When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity. Votes: 0

Pierre Corneille

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I faded away for a while out of necessity. Votes: 0

Phoebe Snow

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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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Good wine is a necessity of life for me. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention Votes: 0

Margaret Mead

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Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity. Votes: 0

Kadir Nelson

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pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm. Votes: 0

Jane Fonda

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He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity. Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity. Votes: 0

Lillian Hellman

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The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators. Votes: 0

William Henry Harrison

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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity. Votes: 0

Ellen Glasgow

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All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit. Votes: 0

Sonia Johnson

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Success in life is a necessity, but happiness is essential. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist. Votes: 0

Eric Maisel

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Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention. Votes: 0

Jonathan Sacks

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There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering. Votes: 0

George Herbert

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Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace. Votes: 0

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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Running is not just a sport but a biological necessity. Votes: 0

Yiannis Kouros

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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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In business, organization is an absolute necessity, not an alternative. Votes: 0

Larry Burkett

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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations. Votes: 0

N. R. Narayana Murthy

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I like curiosity. It's a mind game, not a necessity. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity. Votes: 0

Peter Mayle

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Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain. Votes: 0

Erich Fromm

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Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process. Votes: 0

Ken Danby

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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. Votes: 0

Bernard Williams

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Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity. Votes: 0

E. W. Howe

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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. Votes: 0

Jules Verne

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Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression. Votes: 0

La Meri

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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity. Votes: 0

George Gissing

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Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity. Votes: 0

Marianne Moore

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Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart. Votes: 0

Comtesse Diane

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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating. Votes: 0

Mary MacLane

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If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father. Votes: 0

Kenneth Kaye

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I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. Votes: 0

Theophile Gautier

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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. Votes: 0

H. G. Wells

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there was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve. Votes: 0

Helen Nielsen

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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. Votes: 0

Caroline Myss

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To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead

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Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law. Votes: 0

Immanuel Kant

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The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands. Votes: 0

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment. Votes: 0

Jay Samit

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We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity. Votes: 0

Leonard Cohen

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Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. Votes: 0

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity. Votes: 0

Habib Umar bin Hafiz

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A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity. Votes: 0

Carolyn Wells

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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity Votes: 0

Alfred Russel Wallace

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Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity. Votes: 0

Martin Scorsese

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Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity. Votes: 0

Democritus

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Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity. Votes: 0

Plato

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Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Votes: 0

Anthony Powell

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Kindness is not an option, it is an absolute necessity of life. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity. Votes: 0

Naguib Mahfouz

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The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. Votes: 0

Jason Alexander

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Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property. Votes: 0

Russell Kirk

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Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis. Votes: 0

Jean Monnet

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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. Votes: 0

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity. Votes: 0

Clifton Fadiman

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To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today. Votes: 0

Witold Gombrowicz

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If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. Votes: 0

David Rockefeller

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A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity! Votes: 0

Isaac

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Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Votes: 0

Thomas Paine

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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. Votes: 0

Franz Grillparzer

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A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life. Votes: 0

Harold Laski

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. Votes: 0

William James

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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. Votes: 0

Daniel Dennett

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Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity. Votes: 0

Neal A. Maxwell

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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk. Votes: 0

Jean-Marie Messier

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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true. Votes: 0

Yann Martel

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Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you. Votes: 0

Anne Rice

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If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. Votes: 0

Edward Bellamy

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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are. Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity! Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. Votes: 0

Anthony Crosland

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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity. Votes: 0

James Lee Burke

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The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity. Votes: 0

Grover Cleveland

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I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a necessity. Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature. Votes: 0

Fernando Perez

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Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. Votes: 0

George B. McClellan

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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more. Votes: 0

Horace Mann

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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. Votes: 0

Wendell Berry

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I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race. Votes: 0

Anousheh Ansari

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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. Votes: 0

Robert Benchley

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Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity. Votes: 0

Sean Parker

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Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength. Votes: 0

Jim Rohn

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History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled. Votes: 0

Reinhold Niebuhr

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No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. Votes: 0

Louis L'Amour

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It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity. Votes: 0

Paul Johnson

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Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn't forget the basic necessity of eating. Votes: 0

James Patterson

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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others. Votes: 0

Pliny the Elder

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Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Votes: 0

Ludwig von Mises

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I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin. Votes: 0

John Wesley

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I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense. Votes: 0

Seishiro Itagaki

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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing Votes: 0

Anthony Trollope

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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. Votes: 0

Robert Motherwell

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A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity. Votes: 0

David Gemmell

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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. Votes: 0

Etty Hillesum

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When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural. Votes: 0

Anthony Trollope

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Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house. Votes: 0

Barbara Corcoran

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The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect Votes: 0

Tariq Ramadan

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Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people. Votes: 0

Pliny the Younger

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At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity. Votes: 0

Dennis Stock

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Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity. Votes: 0

Fujio Cho

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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity â it's envy. Votes: 0

Yann Martel

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Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time. Votes: 0

Martina Navratilova

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions. Votes: 0

Charles Garfield

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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. Votes: 0

Jean Toomer

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The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God. Votes: 0

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws. Votes: 0

Philip Sidney

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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. Votes: 0

Agnes Repplier

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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. Votes: 0

Daniel Defoe

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Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better. Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs

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The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right. Votes: 0

David S. Broder

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. Votes: 0

Karl A. Menninger

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The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society. Votes: 0

Frances Fox Piven

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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity... Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity. Votes: 0

Brand Blanshard

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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work. Votes: 0

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity. Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. Votes: 0

Ivan Illich

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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless. Votes: 0

Michael Bassey Johnson

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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best. Votes: 0

Jules Verne

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Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls... Votes: 0

John Muir

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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity"¦It is a part of nature. Votes: 0

Herbert Spencer

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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. Votes: 0

Robert Creeley

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Customer service teams at many companies have already embraced social media, often out of necessity. Votes: 0

Ryan Holmes

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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty. Votes: 0

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity. Votes: 0

Caroline Leavitt

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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity. Votes: 0

Don DeLillo

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Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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Air, an undervalued necessity, that earns your gratitude when you inhale it for the last time Votes: 0

Shaun Neil King

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If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research. Votes: 0

Arthur E. Kennelly

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Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity. Votes: 0

William of Ockham

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I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature. Votes: 0

Rachel Hartman

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High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve. Votes: 0

Jack Canfield

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Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity. Votes: 0

Haddon W. Robinson

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Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded. Votes: 0

Nicolas Sarkozy

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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared? Votes: 0

Dante Alighieri

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Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome. Votes: 0

Max Beckmann

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God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without! Votes: 0

Monica Denise Brown

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It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest. Votes: 0

Paul Klee

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The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. Votes: 0

Aulus Persius Flaccus

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity Votes: 0

Austin Phelps

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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. Votes: 0

Audre Lorde

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When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity. Votes: 0

Steve Pavlina

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Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable. Votes: 0

Marshall Ganz

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To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything. Votes: 0

Inge Morath

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? Votes: 0

Matthew Scully

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The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have. Votes: 0

Ernie J Zelinski

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I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color. Votes: 0

Viola Davis

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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy Votes: 0

Boethius

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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence. Votes: 0

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die. Votes: 0

Euripides

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Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us. Votes: 0

Steven Redhead

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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. Votes: 0

Boethius

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To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve. Votes: 0

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice. Votes: 0

Steve Aylett

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. Votes: 0

Leon Trotsky

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To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity. Votes: 0

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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The fragility of human emotions are not to be trusted but to validate the necessity of Grace. Votes: 0

John Pauul Warren

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Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it. Votes: 0

Billy Graham

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Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war." Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way. Votes: 0

Brenda Laurel

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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life. Votes: 0

Keith Richards

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The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love. Votes: 0

Plato

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Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example. Votes: 0

Veerappa Moily

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Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception. Votes: 0

Robert Motherwell

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. Votes: 0

Max Eastman

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The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding. Votes: 0

Kiki Smith

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In an ever more open world, building peace through dialogue is no longer a choice but a necessity! Votes: 0

Pope Benedict XVI

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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. Votes: 0

Larry Wall

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The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism. Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades. Votes: 0

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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â¦to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world. Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success. Votes: 0

P. T. Barnum

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The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. Votes: 0

John Irving

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Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive. Votes: 0

Jean Baker Miller

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. Votes: 0

Niccolo Machiavelli

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I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never. Votes: 0

Emiliano Zapata

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I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it. Votes: 0

Gloria Steinem

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The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity. Votes: 0

Leah Hager Cohen

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A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose? Votes: 0

Pat Paulsen

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Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it. Votes: 0

Zosia Mamet

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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before. Votes: 0

John Ashcroft

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One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity. Votes: 0

Heraclitus

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The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages. Votes: 0

StanisÅaw I LeszczyÅski

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The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace. Votes: 0

Millard Fillmore

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Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering Votes: 0

Zora Neale Hurston

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when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. Votes: 0

Maria Edgeworth

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The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis. Votes: 0

Jean Monnet

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The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism. Votes: 0

Karl Rahner

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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity. Votes: 0

Charles Darwin

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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition. Votes: 0

Ida Tarbell

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A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity. Votes: 0

Mollie Marti

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Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure. Votes: 0

Roger L'Estrange

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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity forâDoing. Votes: 0

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14]. Votes: 0

Leonard Ravenhill

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Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity. Votes: 0

Michael Helm

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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. Votes: 0

Ida Tarbell

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When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. Votes: 0

Thomas Clarkson

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This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. Votes: 0

Margaret Cavendish

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Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving. Votes: 0

Laverne Cox

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It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done. Votes: 0

Benjamin Creme

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Happiness is more of a necessity than a choice thus we must consider it a priority in everyday's life. Votes: 0

Auliq Ice

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We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. Votes: 0

Clyde Tombaugh

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I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me. Votes: 0

Olga Broumas

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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor. Votes: 0

Pope Leo XIII

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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. Votes: 0

Simone Weil

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Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it. Votes: 0

Marc Jacobs

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It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. Votes: 0

Thomas Paine

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Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free. Votes: 0

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. Votes: 0

Simone Weil

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It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn. Votes: 0

Idries Shah

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Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere. Votes: 0

Virgil

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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. Votes: 0

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times. Votes: 0

Miguel de Cervantes

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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. Votes: 0

Odilon Redon

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Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity; Votes: 0

John Milton

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It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. Votes: 0

John Crowe Ransom

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It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity. Votes: 0

Lyndon B. Johnson

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O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity. Votes: 0

Herbert C. Brown

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It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard. Votes: 0

May Sarton

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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other. Votes: 0

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. Votes: 0

Jose Rizal

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What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time. Votes: 0

Scott Derrickson

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I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. Votes: 0

I. M. Pei

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To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity... Votes: 0

Eli Siegel

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Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think. Votes: 0

Beth Orton

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But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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On so many levels [S.E. Cupp]âs a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does. Votes: 0

Keith Olbermann

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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. Votes: 0

Twyla Tharp

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It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. Votes: 0

Charles Ives

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Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar? Votes: 0

Lauren Oliver

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I have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the VA into the 21st century. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

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Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. Votes: 0

Susan B. Anthony

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For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator. Votes: 0

Dwain K. White Sr.

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Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. Votes: 0

Christie Brinkley

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Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it. Votes: 0

Bill Watterson

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Some people think happiness is a luxury, but its a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. Votes: 0

Christie Brinkley

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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him. Votes: 0

Ernest Renan

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To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. Votes: 0

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. Votes: 0

Neal Cassady

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Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write. Votes: 0

Aleksandar Hemon

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I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it. Votes: 0

Amy Sedaris

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We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. Votes: 0

Arthur Erickson

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IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity. Votes: 0

Emily Dickinson

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I look at fitness as a necessity in the same way as how you drink water, eat food, one should look at Votes: 0

Arjun Rampal

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I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice. Votes: 0

Robert M. Gates

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Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. Votes: 0

Martin H. Fischer

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Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is? Votes: 0

May Sarton

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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. Votes: 0

Walter Savage Landor

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I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

Wilhelm Keitel

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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

Gertrude Stein

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A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

Jonathan Lethem

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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

Robert Stone

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The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Charles Fourier

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Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.

Jacques Ellul

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Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

Henry B. Eyring

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We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.

R. C. Sproul

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Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

Sarah Josepha Hale

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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Sigmund Freud

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Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

William Wordsworth

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...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel

Edgar Allan Poe

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It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

St. Jerome

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While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

Walter Lippmann

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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

Giordano Bruno

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Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

Carl Jung

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I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

Conor McPherson

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Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

John P. Kotter

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Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.

George Washington

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The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

Walter Raleigh

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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

Saint Augustine

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I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.

Sam Harris

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You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

Albert Brooks

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And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

Ernest Mandel

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The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Thomas Carlyle

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Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Alison Gopnik

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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.

John Ralston Saul

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Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity.

Sunny Singh

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Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

Christopher Camuto

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Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Milan Kundera

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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Seneca the Younger

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The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.

Vera Nazarian

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I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.

Elliott Sober

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The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

James Mill

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Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

Marcus Aurelius

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Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.

Oprah Winfrey

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Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Blaise Pascal

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I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

Jacques Derrida

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So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Far from being a "luxury for the rich," organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

Raj Patel

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Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

Alice Hegan Rice

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If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

Benjamin Tucker

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Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, itâs understanding the necessity of both; itâs engaging. Itâs being all in.

BrenÃ© Brown

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I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

Cherrie Moraga

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Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Sydney J. Harris

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Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

Benjamin Franklin

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I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

Ellen Glasgow

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There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

Garet Garrett

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Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows " it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Jose Rizal

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Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

Amitai Etzioni

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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

Murray Rothbard

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Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

Alexander Pushkin

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Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Anne Michaels

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Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

Henry David Thoreau

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Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

Henry R. Luce

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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

Henri Matisse

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Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

Peter Farb

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There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration.

Walter Russell

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They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

Albert Camus

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Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

Alexander Hamilton

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The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

Aristotle

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My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

Babatunde Fashola

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I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

Downtown Julie Brown

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Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

Kevin DeYoung

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Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

Rex Brandt

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Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

William S. Burroughs

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I started producing out of necessity. It's not that I want to become a full time producer, but it gives me control over my creative life.

Michelle Glick

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I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

Quentin S. Crisp

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I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

Elizabeth Blackwell

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When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

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He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

John Locke

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I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best,

Jorge Lorenzo

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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs.

Robert Muller

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Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

Samuel Smiles

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A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

Anne Rice

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One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

Ayn Rand

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Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.

Herbert Marcuse

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We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands.

Krishnananda Saraswati

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Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

Malcolm X

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The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

Tom McClintock

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In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

Henri Poincare

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Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

Jacques Derrida

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The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

Walter Lippmann

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If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

Che Guevara

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If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Barbara Tuchman

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Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.

Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

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The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

John Dewey

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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

John Locke

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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Larry Wall

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If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

Pope Gregory I

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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

Victor Hugo

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Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.

C. S. Lewis

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When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.

Walter E. Williams

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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

Franz Boas

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The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Chaim Potok

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...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

Karl Marx

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No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.

Aleksandar Hemon

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An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

Benjamin Tucker

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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.

Karl Kraus

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New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

Rumi

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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.

Wole Soyinka

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When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

Jose Saramago

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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

Thomas Carlyle

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Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

William Davenant

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Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

Simone de Beauvoir

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As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

William Winwood Reade

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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

Annie Dillard

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Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

Honore de Balzac

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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

Norm MacDonald

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Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician.

Pamela Anderson

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Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

Robert Fripp

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The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

Sigmund Freud

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Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable âmustâall life created by God exists in communal order and works toward community.

Eberhard Arnold

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Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

Ingrid Michaelson

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There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.

Joseph Addison

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Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

Dalai Lama

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Youth is insolent; it is its right " its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence"¦

Joseph Conrad

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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Mark Twain

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Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

Israel Horovitz

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Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it?

Clarissa Dickson Wright

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One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Good for Warren Buffett that he can afford to do that! Some people, sometimes, need to finance a purchase or rent a car, and a credit card becomes a necessity.

Elizabeth Warren

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Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.

Ken Danby

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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Leo Tolstoy

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[Lenin] might have become a Maoist in the sense of attacking the party and bombarding the party headquarters out of necessity to change the whole thing around.

Paul Sweezy

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Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

Sheila Cassidy

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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

Aristotle

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Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.

Germaine Greer

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Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.

Gioachino Rossini

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Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.

Ludwig von Mises

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Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

Martin Luther

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Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ...

Anita Shreve

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Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

Charles Kingsley

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We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.

Martha Graham

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When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

Alix Kates Shulman

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The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

Benjamin Tucker

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They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

Henry Ward Beecher

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... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

Robert Ferrar

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A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.

William Shatner

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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

Barack Obama

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Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

Robert Silverberg

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Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.

Rod Stryker

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Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

Samael Aun Weor

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Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

Ayn Rand

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Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

Baruch Spinoza

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The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach.

Pete Egoscue

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For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more.

Rinko Kawauchi

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Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Samuel Johnson

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The necessity for co-operation between Europe and the United States is bigger than ever. Only by close transatlantic co-operation can we face the world's challenges.

Jan Peter Balkenende

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Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

Rumi

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Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

Saint Augustine

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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

Alexander Pope

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Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

D. H. Lawrence

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Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.

Diana Gabaldon

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A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

Albert Einstein

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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I know that Colbert could quote Thomas Aquinas and all this, but I'm somebody who, because it's a necessity for me on a personal basis. I need it because I'm a lunatic.

Jim Gaffigan

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Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

Joss Whedon

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Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

Abraham Lincoln

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Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself " only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

George Orwell

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What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

Albert Einstein

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Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.

John Hodgman

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The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

John Locke

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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.

Caroline Myss

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There is One Infinite Mind, which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.

Ernest Holmes

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

H. G. Wells

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As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.

Richard J. Evans

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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

Richard Wright

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Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

John Carpenter

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Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

Rebecca West

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Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an ideal world you would hold back.

Simon Pegg

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It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

Benjamin E. Mays

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Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

Charles Caleb Colton

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What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arisesâno matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Frank Herbert

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The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.

Harry Shearer

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Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

Isak Dinesen

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Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

Milan Kundera

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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

Plato

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It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

Rabindranath Tagore

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All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

Raymond Chandler

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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.

Wendell Berry

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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

Agnes Repplier

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Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

David Hume

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The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.

Edward Kennedy

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Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

John Dewey

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Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

Charles Mackay

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...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.

Charlotte Bronte

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As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy

John F. Kennedy

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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

Herodotus

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Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

Lady Bird Johnson

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But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

John Wesley

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A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

Simon Barnes

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There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

Louis Garrel

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All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

Aristotle

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Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

Danny Fox

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An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

Graham Greene

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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Hannah Arendt

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The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

Thomas Jefferson

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I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Thomas Jefferson

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If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

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Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

Francis Quarles

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My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.

Vince Aletti

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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

Abraham Lincoln

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When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Anais Nin

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One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

Booth Tarkington

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There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.

Georg Cantor

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The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.

Herbert Hoover

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Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

John Vianney

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We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

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the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

Freya Stark

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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

Muhammad Iqbal

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I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why else would women have arms? Or feet? Or mouths?

Zach Braff

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Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

Aubrey Beardsley

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Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East....

Mike Huckabee

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We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don't, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates what we have to do to survive. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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The national unity government is a necessity in this country and I am happy to serve it. We have negotiated for months to create a government, but Belgium also went for a year without one.

Ashraf Ghani

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The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

Rebecca Wells

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Actually, Katniss isn't complaining because she has no intention of staying with the "Star Squad," but she recognizes the necessity of getting to the Capitol before carrying out any plan.

Suzanne Collins

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The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

Albert Camus

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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.

Dallas Willard

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The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

Simone Weil

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If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

William James

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Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

Anne Enright

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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Edmund Burke

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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

Eric Hobsbawm

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... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

James Madison

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Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

M. Scott Peck

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A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

Martin Luther

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