Necessary Quotes
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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.
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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.]
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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
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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.
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Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.
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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.
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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.
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It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.
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I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.
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"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
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The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.
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Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.
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Experience is necessary for us to grow.
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Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place-though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.
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A society that rewards people for violence will get more violence. A society that tolerates people who violate the non-aggression principle will be ruled by aggressive people. A society that believes aggression is necessary in order to function will institutionalize coercion and reward those who provide what it considers necessary.
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.
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For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty.
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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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Our underclothes were woolen vests and knickers and an extraordinary, but apparently necessary, concoction called a liberty bodice, which had no freedom about it, so how it got its name I cannot imagine. It was made of some harsh stuff, with here and there straps and buttons that did nothing.
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
