Aristotle Quotes
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
Quotes to Explore
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
Harold Wilson
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
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I am not driven.
Cameron Mackintosh
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
Randy Schekman
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A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
T. S. Kalyanaraman
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe
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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.
Albert Einstein
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Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.
Yvon Chouinard
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Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.
Daniel Berrigan
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What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.
Bette Midler
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Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.
Barbara Coloroso
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People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.
Andrew Cuomo
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I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.
Louis Tomlinson One Direction
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
Moliere
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If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.
J. H. Hexter
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My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.
Steven Barry "Lips" Kudlow Anvil
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It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.
Ray LaMontagne
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It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.
Hannah Simone
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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
Aristotle