Necessary Quotes
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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.
William Prynne
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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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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.
James P. Hogan
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Experience is necessary for us to grow.
Marianne Williamson
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
Anne Carson
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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
Jane Austen
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I don't know if it's exactly necessary to have someone. I'm not sure.
Eric Gill
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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence
Moses Mendelssohn
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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.
Toussaint Louverture
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It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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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.
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Victor Hugo