Necessary Quotes
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The court finds that it is necessary to grant (Moody) a new trial because it finds the jury misconduct undermined the integrity of the jury deliberations and public confidence in their verdict.
J. M. Roberts
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A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
Denise Levertov
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.
Jane Austen
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To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda
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It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
Al Pacino
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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
Jane Austen
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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
Diogenes
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Before being free, it is necessary to be just.
Alexander von Humboldt
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The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.
Michael Huffington
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[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.
Dennis Oppenheim
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.
Marion Milner
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I am sustained by Being Necessary.
Catherynne M. Valente
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What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.
Richard Thompson
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"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
Miguel de Cervantes
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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
Oprah Winfrey
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I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
Michel Foucault
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Sometimes it's necessary for your sanity to hone in on the things that you love and the people you enjoy hanging out with.
Dan Smith
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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
George Bernard Shaw
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For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained. [It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli