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The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Fred Hoyle
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau
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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. -Leon Edel
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Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt The Younger
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Necessity is the author of change.

Tim Hansel
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Not even the gods fight against necessity. -Simonides
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Roger Von Oech
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung
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Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one--first piece of ingenuity, first proof that one is no accident but a necessity. -Friedrich Nietzsche
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Sallust
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Necessity never made a good bargain.

Benjamin Franklin
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Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. -Arnold H. Glasgow
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G. K. Chesterton
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Necessity knows no law.

Publilius Syrus
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct. -Cicero
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Necessity does the work of courage.

Nicholas Murray Butler
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein
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Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical. -Dame Rose Macaulay
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Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Benedict Spinoza
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The officers felt an absolute necessity, given his employment, given the fact that he could potentially back to TSU, that this needed to be investigated fully.

Don Aaron
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. -Simone Weil
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We don't know what his intent is one way or the other. Certainly any business has a necessity of planning for its own future. That's his business, so we have really no reaction to that one way or the other.

Fred Nation
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I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.

Yoko Ono
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To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity. -Brand Blanshard
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When Japan was poor, families did more things together out of necessity. But now it?s increasingly all about the individual. This leaves people more isolated and likely to contemplate suicide.

Mafumi Usui
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The absolute necessity is diversity has to be in portfolios.

Bud Kasper
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When Japan was poor, families did more things together out of necessity, like sharing a bath or eating together, and the community was much more important, especially in rural communities. -Mafumi Usui
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We have the necessity of government intervention to ensure the free exchange of ideas.

Craig Fields
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Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

John Kotter
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Necessity has no law. -William Langland
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