Absolutely Necessary Quotes
98 Absolutely Necessary quotes by 89 unique authors
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For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than…
— George Stevens
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Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious…
— Maurice de Saxe
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The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death…
— Timothy Keller
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I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to…
— Alicia Silverstone
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This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our…
— Jerry Brown
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We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I…
— Amy Tan
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Adversity and challenges are life’s way of creating strength. Adversity creates challenge, and challenge creates change, and change is absolutely necessary for growth. If there…
— Willie Jolley
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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills. Alternative…
— David Suzuki
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I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.
— Josh Billings
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... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.
— Roger Bacon
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I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this…
— Oscar Wilde
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
— Floyd Patterson
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As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
— Charles Baudelaire
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Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I was a missionary…
— Griffith John
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- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it…
— Joseph Stalin
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We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for…
— C.S. Lewis
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Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything…
— Ann Wigmore
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted…
— Georges Cuvier
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Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more…
— Samuel Johnson
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Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.
— Eugene Ormandy
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The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar…
— James Madison
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