Necessities Quotes
192 quotes by 162 authors
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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was…
— Aristotle
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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
— Oscar Wilde
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Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Hey Deion, Bubbelah - maybe you'd better pay a little less attention to those unfairly Draconian salary caps that only allowed you to acquire four…
— Dennis Miller
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What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt…
— Pope Pius XI
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Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.
— Mark Halperin
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To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without…
— Horace Kephart
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And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty
— Eartha Kitt
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Beauty rests on necessities.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed…
— Sigmund Freud
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Free choice - a small selection between pre-established necessities.
— Herbert Marcuse
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In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away…
— Thucydides
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Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way,…
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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