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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Oscar Wilde

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Baruch Spinoza

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

Henry Ward Beecher

We had many luxuries, such as books an the theater, but not many of the necessities.

Marion Ross

These people are still without many necessities, and they're living cramped up in trailers. We are trying to do everything we can to help.

Marcia Danchise

When someone only has $200 to their name and has to pay their electric bill soon, why make them pay for basic necessities?

Claudia Tremaine

All I want is food right now. I've got a dog. I've got a husband. We need the necessities.

Butterfly Samson

The money from the foundation, is not only giving us money for the extras - it's helping us with the necessities.

Debbie Murry

Sure a car and computer are great gifts, but they also are necessities.

Janet White

Another $1 out of consumers' pockets certainly affects consumers' willingness and ability to spend on items other than the basic necessities.

Wendy Liebmann

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Mark Twain

We don't buy luxury or extra items but we buy necessities.

Greg James

We are seeing a lot of people who are cutting back on other necessities - food, medication - to meet their utility bills.

Glenn Cooper

Music is ever-changing; it's always new. There's a few things most people couldn't go without - food, water, air - and I feel like music is one of those (elemental necessities) in life.

Patrick Norman

We try to follow the show, but nobody gets voted out. And of course, we make sure nobody is without necessities.

Doug Kramer

The groups that will do well in this kind of environment are groups that were ignored for some time; food, beverages, household products, necessities.

Douglas Cliggott

Who goes out now and pays $350 bucks for a Coach bag? In times like these, you don't really go for fashion, you go where you can get the necessities.

Ulysses Yannas

May not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager, or perhaps a general manager.

Al Campanis

There's a real freedom without all that stuff, once you learn to get by without all the things you thought were necessities.

Larry Long

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

Dorothy Parker

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

That's a luxury. We've been getting rid of necessities and now we're adding a luxury.

Tim Ray

They don't have the basic necessities, let alone medical supplies,schooling, everything that we take for granted, ... We can turn it around quickly, as I said, provided the environment is conducive to that.

Dennis Mcnamara