Necessary Quotes
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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.
Aristotle
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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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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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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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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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It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.
Eliphas Levi
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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.
Adolf Hitler
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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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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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For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty.
David Altmejd
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Experience is necessary for us to grow.
Marianne Williamson
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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
