Necessary Quotes
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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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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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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 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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It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.
Galway Kinnell
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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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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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[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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What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.
Kathleen Grissom
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Before being free, it is necessary to be just.
Alexander von Humboldt
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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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It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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...the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.
Jeff Miller
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Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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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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What is necessary is to rectify names.
Confucius
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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
Confucius
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I am sustained by Being Necessary.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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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Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.
Alison Assiter
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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
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I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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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