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“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Necessity never made a good bargain”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife”
Jonathan Schattke Quotes |
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“Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
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“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
Karl Marx Quotes |
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“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow”
Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
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“Necessity is the author of change”
Tim Hansel Quotes |
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“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”
Euripides Quotes |
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“Necessity is stronger far than art.”
Aeschylus Quotes Source: Prometheus Chained (l. 513)
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“Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessite,
And take it weel, that we may not eschu,
And namely that that to us alle is due.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 2,182), The Knight's Tale
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“Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary
necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the
Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.”
Oliver Cromwell Quotes Source: Speeches--To Parliament
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“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or
whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know
it myself.”
Oliver Cromwell Quotes Source: Speeches--To Parliament
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“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes Source: Inferno (XII, 87)
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“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes Source: Inferno (XII, 87)
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“Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.”
Richard Franck Quotes Source: Northern Memoirs (p. 52)
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“To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity).
[Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]”
Hadrianus Julius Quotes Source: Addition to Adages of Erasmus
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“Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
[Lat., Aequa lege necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Carmina (III, 1, 14)
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“Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
[Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]”
Titus Livy Quotes Source: Annales (IV, 28)
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“Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature
requires.
[Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,
Et quantum natura petat.]”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes Source: Pharsalia (IV, 377)
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“So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 393)
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“Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
[Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Essays (bk. I, 47)
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“My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have given:
And trod the mountain height,
Where Science, young and bright,
Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.
Yet have I found no power to vie
With thine, severe necessity!”
Thomas Love Peacock Quotes Source: Necessity
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“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Quotes Source: Speeches--The India Bill
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