To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle
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The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Thomas Jefferson
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare .
Theodore Roosevelt
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
Robert Byrne
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
Pythagoras
Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.
Niccolo Machiavelli
...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
John Ruskin
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Albert Camus
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
Peter McWilliams
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison
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.
Salvador Dali
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C. S. Lewis
Hope is necessary in every condition.
Samuel Johnson
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Andrew Jackson
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad
When your mission is to "restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.
Paul Begala
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Albert Einstein
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow
This could happen by the end of the year if all the necessary preparations come together.
Charles Soludo
It's a necessary evil. There's no question the more people in the area, the more stress there is on the environment, but the higher the fees on housing, the harder it is for people to buy homes.
Carol Whiteside
If Northwest does not back off from the remaining open issues, then they can expect us to do what's necessary to defend our careers.
Wade Blaufuss
Doctor referral is necessary for this because we're trying to target the kids that are most at risk.
Caroline Brown
Due to the enormous backlog at the crime lab, it created a halt in the investigation -- if you will. They were forced to investigate other ... circumstances of the crime. We're very confident now that we have the ingredients necessary to move forward at a reasonable pace.
Sean Howard
Now is a time of crisis for our party. It is necessary to ask someone who has a lot of experience to take over and do the job.
Yukio Hatoyama
It hasn't been necessary to raise my prices. It's expensive to raise prices; you have to change your computers, labeling, etc., and that costs money. Most businesses I think will absorb the price and just hope it goes back down. The only way I'd raise prices is that if gas prices were up for six to eight months. Then I'd probably raise them because of the deliveries we make.
Robin Myers
We suggest companies take the necessary precaution of blocking all .RAR files until the outbreak has been contained.
Joel Smith
The rules are necessary but not sufficient.
Richard Ferlauto
This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems.
Duncan Hunter
Because of the threat to their lives, the officers took necessary action and each fired one shot.
Brian Levin
That investigation at these locations wasn't necessary anymore. That is very clearly not correct.
Klaus Toepfer
(This) will upgrade the resources from the 'inferred' to the 'indicated' category necessary to advance the project to a pre-feasibility stage.
Walter Brown
In foreign countries, there are different coaches for skiing and shooting, but we only have one. If we want out biathlon to develop, these coaches with advanced training methods are necessary.
Gao Xuedong
Responses to this request for information will assist the agency in determining an appropriate course of action as necessary to improve mine rescue capabilities.
David G. Dye
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
Jim Carrey
If we find it necessary to change the company name, we'll decide it based on the results of that research.
Kozo Hiramatsu
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.. if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
John Foster Dulles
If artificial barriers are necessary to keep employees dedicated to company goals, then that's an indicator of weak management.
Michael Robertson
Our experience means we can bring a bit of clarity to proceedings at crucial moments and to calm the troops if necessary.
Thomas Lievremont
We expect a hearing in early May, and we're processing all the necessary paperwork to meet that goal. We look forward to a speedy confirmation.
Jeanie Mamo
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail Adams
Sometimes conflict is necessary in the short term to achieve peace through the threat of aggression, and sometimes it is the threat of conflict which can establish peace.
Michael Ancram
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm not in favor of war, but I believe there are times it is necessary.
Pam Trevino
What do you mean, you "Don't believe in homosexuality"? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
Lea Delaria
FDA believes meetings like this are essential to foster and cultivate the necessary cooperation to continue to keep our drugs safe.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb
Further actions will be implemented, if necessary.
Leif Johansson
You got the interview because the company believes you have the necessary skills to handle the job. The interviewers are looking for 'fit.' Before making a job offer, they need to know that you mesh with the corporate culture.
Brenda Greene
We're going to comply with all the environmental regulations necessary as development of that area proceeds.
Darrell Smith
It was necessary to go back. There's too much history and tradition. We are Mardi Gras.
Naaman Stewart
I don't feel it's necessary to convince people of anything. I'll just tell people the truth.
Richard Byyny
This is an unusual step for us, but not unprecedented. We feel this is necessary and appropriate.
John Ellis
We feel it's necessary to reduce accommodation.
Michael Moskow
We explain our business needs to our partners, and give them the information necessary to make recommendations. They come back with great options.
Alex Spinos
This is a real eye-opener set of results. The warmth necessary to do this isn't all that great.
Jonathan Overpeck
We should have all the necessary flu vaccine serum by mid November.
Amy Johnson
I think it's a logical step, and I think it's necessary.
John Morton
Saturday was challenging with light air and a little chop. The conditions made it necessary to drive carefully and trim the sails constantly and a little looser.
John Hyatt
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might also seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
John Tillotson
Over the past two months, we have lost some confidence in the company's ability to generate the growth necessary to meet our estimates.
Tom Courtney
Every day, things change for me, ... You make the necessary adaptations.
Craig Thomas
The market is returning to normalcy and the correction is both healthy and necessary.
Ara Hovnanian
The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
Wendie Malick
There's a lot going on. We didn't think that rebuilding the schools, which is necessary, should be lost among everything else. It's a stand alone item and it should be looked at fairly for what it is.
Richard Shapiro
Exiting the unprofitable automotive fabrics business is a difficult decision, but ... it is a necessary action for the sake of the enterprise.
Frank Macher
To deprive the Catholic Hospitals, which are in urban centers, of these funds, will just make it all the more difficult to provide necessary care to the people that need it most.
Barry Feldman
I think that it's really necessary for college presidents to be excited about the SA and to come to their college [cabinet meetings] and really show that they're enthusiastic about the issues.
Althea Tupper
It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
Frank Dane
I'm not seeing anything yet that is easy enough for our customers to use, and we also aren't sure how many of them have computers equipped with the necessary speakers and microphone.
Lauren Christiansen
It is typical and completely appropriate. It's an insurance policy that more than 90 percent of corporate America has in place. Given the fact that we live in a litigious society, it's something that is necessary.
Claudia Rapkoch
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
Chuck Yeager
The sweeping changes in the entertainment industry dictated necessary, competitive changes at ABC, and I feel that the time is right to move on.
Jamie Tarses
I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
Mikhail Bakunin
Be honest with yourself. Think about the necessary steps to get there.
Marlia Fontaine
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Sitting Bull
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.
Antisthenes
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Christy Mathewson
We will take all necessary steps to solve this horrible crime.
Aslan Maskhadov
We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.
Carl Elliott
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.
William Ralph Inge
Whether you consider an investment in conferencing to be a way to cut costs or to increase productivity, these tools will soon join the ranks as necessary tools for your company to compete in the worldwide economy.
Andrew Davis
Now that we have the months of December and January finished, we felt it necessary to factor those results into our earlier projections and issue this update.
Brian L. Halla
Both symbolically and also because of the job he did, ... No one person is ever at fault. I don't mean to imply that. But symbolically, it was necessary. FEMA in general has serious improving to do.
Patrick Quinn
We don't know what is actually going to happen. We've never been faced with this before. We have tried to put forth as much information as we could gather to convince them that this was not necessary.
Albert Chee
This organization is viewed as a necessary conduit for the collection and distribution of food to communitywide agencies and organizations, which provide daily meals to the hungry and impoverished.
Don Capshaw
I could get the funding in two weeks, two months -- or never. It's all about how immediate and necessary the needs are.
Scott Walton
We believe very strongly in the free flow of information and felt it was necessary to have access to tell the full story.
Jim Walton
We'll boat train him so he'll follow a target, and then we can recall him back to the boat if necessary. That gives us access out to deeper water.
Jeff Foster
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Louise Bogan
We've allowed those things to creep back. They are not necessary and should not be allowed.
Rich Mckay
Neither ecology, nor other factors make it necessary to raise the submarine.
Yevgeny Adamov
We believe . . . that tightening links with customers by moving these functions into business units is a necessary step.
Cindy Shaw
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.
Kristin Hunter
We will take all necessary safety precautions.
Jeff Kamis
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
Horace Bushnell
There's no obvious reason from this report to explain why further analysis is appropriate or even necessary.
Bob Ekstrand
Many financial institutions had been moving toward stronger authentication, so they should have time to make the necessary changes.
Pete Lindstrom
In the car industry, superior design is critical. Product design defines the first impression the customer has about our products. With one look the customer makes their decision about their appeal. Of course, an attractive design is not enough to make a product a success, but it is necessary.
Carlos Ghosn
They need to ... figure out why workers don't think they're necessary.
Randel Johnson
I see [the order] as potentially necessary. I don't feel like I'm getting a fair shake.
Bob Buchman
The combined company will have the strength and assets necessary to be a competitive force in today's transforming communications marketplace.
Michael Capellas
This combination of pressures means that the cost of not having the necessary skills to make sound financial decisions is becoming increasingly significant.
John Tiner
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
Nikolai Gogol
Sometimes it is necessary to foresee the situation of the project for the 30 years ahead.
Mike Corfield
If you keep it really simple - does your site checkout and search function work well? Is your site very fast? Do you have a big brand? That's not all that's necessary, but that's the key - keeping it simple.
David Cooperstein
Without performing legal acrobatics, I cannot make the instruction confusing. And I certainly cannot do the contortions necessary to find the Texas appellate court's decision 'objectively unreasonable.
Clarence Thomas
This really isn't about whether ginger tea or chicken soup work. It's really about conveying to people that medicines (for colds) aren't necessary and could be potentially dangerous for kids.
Bill Pfeiffer
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana
This is a team with heart that does all the little things necessary to win. They compete. They hustle and they work hard. They don't let the little things bother them, and they just battle through it to try to be successful.
Brock Knight
I am committed to take our mobile activities public in order to raise the necessary funds to create a mobile currency for future acquisitions, first in Europe and then globally.
Ron Sommer
We need partners with the necessary infrastructure and product knowledge to enable us to react quickly to business demands.
Alex Spinos
I reiterate my total innocence of the allegations made against me, ... And will take all necessary steps to clear my good name.
Michael Foley
We wanted to take all necessary safety precautions.
Sterling Ivey
Although the government claims the censorship law is necessary to protect minors, it has not even used all of the tools currently available to protect them from sexually explicit content.
Ann Beeson
This cancer genome atlas project is all about the progress that is necessary for us to make cancer a chronic and manageable condition that no longer causes the suffering and death that we see all around us.
Andrew Von Eschenbach
It's absolutely necessary that our employees have access to the Internet, ... The bottom line is this: The world is moving incredibly fast and the Internet is moving faster, and we must have a workforce that keeps up.
Jim Holden
It's not necessary for me to know who I voted for. What I'm concerned about is, if it is a close election, you can't double-check it. It's a safeguard.
Bryce King
We hope to raise awareness and consciousness regarding some of the broader issues that may not receive the kind of public discussion and debate that we believe is necessary.
Isabel Marcus
The [campaign] will continue until the U.S. and international communities have taken the necessary actions to end the genocide.
David Rubenstein
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
Richard Baxter
The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
We believe that it will take an additional 30 days to complete the necessary evaluation and collect comments and data from our membership.
Janet Frank
We view bankruptcy as a last resort but a necessary one because no other alternatives would allow us to change as rapidly as we need to.
John Spanjers
Anybody with talent can come here and have the necessary ingredients. This is the only place in the world where fast bowlers can enhance their skills.
Javagal Srinath
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
Edith Wharton
There are some televisions that pull as much as 12 watts an hour in standby. That's not necessary.
Denise Durrett
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Bernard Meltzer
The reduced flying levels make it necessary for Northwest to furlough 900 flight attendants. Based on current schedule projections, we estimate that it will be necessary to furlough an additional 500 flight attendants in January 2006.
Bill Mellon
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad Adenauer
Congress must do everything necessary to attend to the immediate needs of those who have tragically lost their homes and their livelihoods.
Jeb Hensarling
We've all had disappointments, all have had failures. That is a necessary point in life. The important thing is, how do we teach our kids to cope with disappointments?
Aaron Miles
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Legislators in each state must determine whether or not regulation is necessary to protect their constituents.
Don Norman
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
Remy De Gourmont
We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Antonin Artaud
Your description should include detailed directions on how to execute the prank, its intended response, and any props necessary to pulling it off. Keep it clean -- the focus of the contest is good humor and fun.
Valerie Pontbriand
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
William E. Simon
State mediation [of a proposed educational plan] usually becomes necessary only when there was a breakdown in communications.
Chet Bialicki
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Stanislaw Lem
Should the lieutenant governor decide to run, he will be a very formidable candidate and someone who will also have the resources necessary to mount a successful campaign.
Dan Ronayne
We knew it would need to be extended when Ballantrae was developed. If you look at Ballantrae, it's a square mile of development. That's a pretty big development. We always saw it as a necessary connection.
Paul Hammersmith
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
William Wycherley
It may be that crosswalk is no longer necessary or desirable and that's why it isn't being maintained. Each entity knows which crosswalks are active and which are inactive.
Jorge Cervantes
It was a bold but necessary move...but now they have to execute.
Doug Smith
He's the AD. He's not a lame duck, and he will make all of the decisions necessary.
Gerald Turner
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane Ackerman
Reasonable and necessary in the current environment.
Mark Mcclain
There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leadership. A more diversified black community doesn't find it necessary to have one voice.
Michael Eric Dyson
We are yet to receive the High Court order and will take necessary steps after that.
Tv Ramachandran
She does all the little things that are necessary. She's an extreme competitor. She gives 110 percent all the time.
Shane Mcfadyen
We're talking about banning a procedure, not about a woman's right to choose. It's an inhuman act. It's not necessary.
Brian Joyce
There is always an opportunity to add in more meetings as we go if that becomes necessary.
Pam Dedent
We haven't reached the place where the explosion occurred. First we have to do all that's necessary to rescue our personnel. Then we can investigate what caused the explosion.
Ruben Escudero
We are making adjustments in the first quarter of this year because of changes in our military support business. These changes have forced us to make this necessary decision to ensure our competitiveness.
Derek Mcluckey
That was not necessary to do what he did to her body. That's a utility to prevent screaming.
Vernon Geberth
We had some looks. We normally don't run something for a specific player and most of the time it wasn't necessary.
Ron Nesper
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
Robert Boyle
We felt like our legislature was ready to make the changes that are necessary to this law and thought we'd ask them.
Amy Miller
I regret that this was necessary. This was not what I wanted - they are good friends and colleagues. But their roles are no longer needed.
Brian Russell
I was feeling it today, doing whatever was necessary to win. We've got a lot of guys who can get it done on any given night, and today it was my turn. I did what I had to do when I got the ball, and we're moving on.
Brandon Bowman
Dry eye isn't just a necessary evil of growing older. For many women, dry eye is related to the changing hormone levels of menopause just as much as hot flashes, depression, insomnia and vaginal dryness.
Phyllis E. Greenberger
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith
I did say that I would not go but after being convinced by the chairman that my participation is necessary for the better image of the country, I have decided to tour Australia.
Inzamam ul
There was lap dancing with a fair amount of cash floating around the floor with the dancers, leading quickly into sexual acts in a nature so explicit imagination wasn't necessary.
Stephen Doyle
We feel that due to the lack of competitiveness of our men's basketball program that it was necessary to make a change in leadership at this time.
Scott Street
It isn't necessary to Mt. Hood Meadows. It's already the biggest ski area on the mountain. The demands are growing, but the mountain is not growing, and we have to learn to live with limits.
Kate Mccarthy
Take the necessary steps to look into this matter when appropriate.
Franco Frattini
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a very useful and necessary effort to begin reflection on how we are going to handle the diplomacy of the end game.
Jamie Shea
We didn't hit their pitcher, and she did a heck of a job. We didn't hit today like we are capable and didn't make the necessary adjustments.
Vernon Carter
We have taken all necessary preparations and measures to see to it that this will not affect passengers.
Sudhir Kumar
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