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Sometimes, the most profound revelations sneak in through moments of chaos, findings not so much discovered as they are whispered between the carries of irony and necessity.
Author:
Adira Faulkner
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Success is fantastic, but you can’t try and picture millions'-worth ideas with just a bank's focus on interest!
Author:
Oliver Stone
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Sweatpants are to adulting what glitter is to children - a necessity
Author:
Mindy Kaling
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The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.
Author:
Wilhelm Wundt
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People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.
Author:
Dick Wolf
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
Author:
Bern Williams
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
Author:
Vivienne Westwood
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Author:
Josiah Warren
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I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
Author:
Robert Walpole
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Author:
Larry Wall
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There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.
Author:
Clint Walker
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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.
Author:
Voltaire
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
Author:
Thorstein Veblen
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In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Author:
Raoul Vaneigem
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Author:
Mark Twain
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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
Author:
Ivan Turgenev
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God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
Author:
Martin Tupper
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Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Author:
Harry Truman
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
Author:
Clyde Tombaugh
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
Author:
Twyla Tharp
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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
Author:
Thales
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
Author:
Ida Tarbell
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I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.
Author:
Steve Swallow
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In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
Author:
John Strachan
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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Author:
Madame Stael
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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.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Not even Ares battles against necessity.
Author:
Sophocles
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Author:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
Author:
Robert Shea
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But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.
Author:
Hjalmar Schacht
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The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
Author:
Hjalmar Schacht
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Author:
Sallust
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Author:
Walter Salles
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The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
Author:
Walter Salles
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Author:
Odilon Redon
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
Author:
Man Ray
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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.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
Author:
Ludwig Quidde
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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Author:
Jerry Pournelle
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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.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
Author:
James Polk
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To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Author:
Henri Poincare
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
Author:
Plato
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
Author:
William Petty
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The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
Author:
James Payn
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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.
Author:
Richard Owen
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Author:
Roger Oech
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Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
Author:
William Occam
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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.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Author:
Robert Motherwell
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Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Author:
Jan Morris
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The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
Author:
John Moody
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.
Author:
Slobodan Milosevic
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For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.
Author:
Jean-Marie Messier
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When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
Author:
Moses Mendelssohn
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Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity.
Author:
Donald Medeiros
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As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
Author:
George McClellan
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Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
Author:
John McCain
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That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.
Author:
Mary McAleese
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Author:
Karl Marx
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
Author:
Gabriel Marquez
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I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.
Author:
Nicolas Malebranche
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Author:
Maimonides
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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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.
Author:
Ernst Mach
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
Author:
Rosa Luxemburg
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The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.
Author:
Willy Ley
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Good writers are of necessity rare.
Author:
George Lewes
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New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.
Author:
John Lawson
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The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.
Author:
Christian Lange
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No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
Author:
Louis L'Amour
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
Author:
Lactantius
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Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
Author:
Jacques Lacan
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I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.
Author:
Chiaki Kuriyama
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She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.
Author:
Lincoln Kirstein
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In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Author:
Lincoln Kirstein
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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.
Author:
John Kennedy
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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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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.
Author:
Carl Jung
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
Author:
Joan Jett
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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.
Author:
Arne Jacobsen
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We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Author:
Andrew Jackson
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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.
Author:
Charles Ives
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There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
Author:
John Irving
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I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.
Author:
Anjelica Huston
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.
Author:
Fred Hoyle
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Author:
Augustine Hippo
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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
Author:
James Hillman
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The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.
Author:
Theodor Herzl
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There ought to be a law against necessity.
Author:
E. Harburg
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Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
Author:
Emma Goldman
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
Author:
Arnold Glasgow
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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.
Author:
Phyllis George
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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
Author:
Elizabeth George
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I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
Author:
Theophile Gautier
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
Author:
Carl Gauss
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The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
Author:
Stephen Gardiner
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Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
Author:
Solomon Gabirol
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Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
Author:
Samuel Fuller
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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.
Author:
Robert Fripp
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.
Author:
Mike Fitzpatrick
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
Author:
F. Fitzgerald
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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.
Author:
Martin Fischer
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Necessity, the mother of invention.
Author:
George Farquhar
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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Author:
Euripides
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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.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Author:
Friedrich Engels
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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.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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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.
Author:
Jacques Ellul
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A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
Author:
Will Eisner
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Author:
Dwight Eisenhower
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Author:
Thomas Edison
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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.
Author:
Thomas Edison
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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Author:
Leon Edel
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As time folds its concrete petals over weathered landmarks, their stoic grace speak of loves unclaimed, choices unmade, and histories memory tried to wipe while swiftly handing respect to life.
Author:
Evelyn Grant
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Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
Author:
Marjory Douglas
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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.
Author:
Emily Dickinson
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Author:
Democritus
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Author:
Daniel Defoe
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Author:
Daniel Defoe
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What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Author:
Anthony Crosland
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Necessity has no law.
Author:
Oliver Cromwell
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The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
Author:
Robert Creeley
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
Author:
James Cooper
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The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
Author:
Grover Cleveland
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When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
Author:
Thomas Clarkson
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Author:
Agatha Christie
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.
Author:
Martin Chemnitz
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Author:
Salmon Chase
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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.
Author:
Ray Charles
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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.
Author:
Raymond Chandler
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The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.
Author:
Jimmy Chamberlin
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As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.
Author:
Enrico Caruso
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.
Author:
Stephen Cambone
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Author:
Lord Byron
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Necessity does the work of courage.
Author:
Nicholas Butler
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My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
Author:
Martin Buren
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But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.
Author:
Steven Brust
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I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
Author:
David Brainerd
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All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
Author:
Anna Brackett
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I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
Author:
Jack Bowman
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But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
Author:
Felix Bloch
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
Author:
John Berger
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With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
Author:
Bruce Beresford
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Author:
Robert Benchley
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Author:
Bruce Barton
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No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
Author:
Bernard Barton
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Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.
Author:
Fredrik Bajer
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Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.
Author:
Paul Bailey
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
Author:
Carl Bach
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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
Author:
John Ashcroft
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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.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
Author:
B. Ambedkar
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Author:
Nelson Algren
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And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.
Author:
Giovanni Agnelli
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
Author:
John Adams
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Author:
Edward Abbey
