Necessities Quotes

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt
Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and… — Ezra Taft Benson
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries. — Cher
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty. — Charles Spurgeon
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and… — Jimmy Carter
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we… — Jimmy Carter
In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all… — Oskar Schlemmer
Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not… — Adolf Hitler
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
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. — George Bernard Shaw
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. — Joseph Conrad
Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over… — Rabindranath Tagore
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. — Samuel Johnson
The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another;… — Samuel Johnson

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