Necessity Quotes
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Carlyle
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How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
Euripides
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Nature means Necessity.
Philip James Bailey
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.
Wilhelm Keitel
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Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
Richard Wagner
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Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
Baruch Spinoza
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
John Milton
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To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.
Eli Siegel
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I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.
Elliott Sober
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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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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
Albert Camus
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Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital.
Michel Foucault
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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
Thomas Carlyle
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Creation is the result, but not the beginning of love. Redemption is the manifestation of God as love, and therefore points to a love of absolute necessity and eternity. God is love, not God became love... It is this love that we are planted by the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
Adolph Saphir
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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
Alex Faickney Osborn
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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.
Isaac Newton
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Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.
Euripides
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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
Seneca the Younger
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Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
Evelyn Underhill
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There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.
Tones and I