Necessity Quotes
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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.
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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.
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Why borrow if you are not in need of it? You must lend feet to the maximum of your bed only, and not to borrow except in the case of necessity.
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Beauty is a social necessity.
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Art is a luxury but also a necessity.
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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
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First and foremost must come the recognition and the realization that education is not a luxury in colonial areas, but it is as much a necessity as in free countries. It is an amenity to which every citizen has a right. It is a social service which should be the first charge on the finances of a country. And in advanced countries it is not uncommon for the state to spend as much as 25 per cent of their revenue on education.
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Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
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We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity.
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This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness. That which is necessary, that which must be, means that which will be, whatever supposition we may make in regard to all other things.
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If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.
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Necessity is stronger than duty.
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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.
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When obedience is so impious, Revolt is a necessity.
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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.
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.
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The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
