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Anon.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Eric Pio
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A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury.
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G. K. Chesterton
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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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Mark Twain
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
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Pablo Picasso
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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William James
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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Henri Poincare
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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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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.
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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 393.
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And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds.
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Friedrich von Schiller
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Stern is the on-look of necessity,
Not without shudder may a human hand
Grasp the mysterious urn of destiny.
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Saint Augustine
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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.
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George Santayana
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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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Cicero
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The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.
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William Pitt
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.
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Gelett Burgess
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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.
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Maya Angelou
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
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E. B. White
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Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
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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.
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Odilon Redon
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Bertrand Russell
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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.
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John Milton
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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Agatha Christie
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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.
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Carl Gustav Jung
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In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of wei
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Lyndon B. 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.
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Bertrand Russell
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is
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James Polk
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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.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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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. (To Canadian Parliament)
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them.
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Phyllis Mcginley
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God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.
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Warren Bennis
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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John Piper
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Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.
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Richard Jordan
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The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.
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To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
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Mother is the invention of necessity.
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Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
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Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Not even the gods fight against necessity.
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
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Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
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Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
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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.
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Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
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Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
(Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
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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.
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We should manage our fortunes 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.
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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.
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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.
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Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or m
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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"Necessity never made a good bargain." - Ben Franklin
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"Necessity is not an established fact,but an interpretation." -Nietzsche
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"Mothers are the necessity of invention." - - Calvin
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"Mother is the inventor of necessity." - Calvin
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progres
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Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
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