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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.
Shah Rukh Khan
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If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.
Arthur E. Kennelly
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
Pythagoras
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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.
Honore de Balzac
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Robert Walpole
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Art is a luxury but also a necessity.
Edwidge Danticat
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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beauty is a social necessity.
James Goldsmith
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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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Necessity is stronger than duty.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.
Ambalal Dahyabhai Patel
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison
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Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
Plato
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At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.
Dennis Stock
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When obedience is so impious, Revolt is a necessity.
Pierre Corneille
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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.
Angela Merici
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
Plato
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
Dante Alighieri