Necessity Quotes

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To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a… — Robert McNamara
Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced… — Georg Cantor
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us, we will say… — Louis Evely
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton
And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the… — George Washington
Accident is veiled necessity. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you could not expect… — Kazuaki Tanahashi
Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward interests of my… — Chester Carlson
When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point… — Simone Weil
We've got to let the people know that there is a necessity, it's not even an option, it's a necessity to have a chiropractor. As… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time. — Oprah Winfrey
Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone. — Raj Patel
These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time… — Thomas Paine
Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So… — Herbert Spencer
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech)… — Eugenio Montale
Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends — Coco Chanel
The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive. — Dalai Lama
Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it. — Marc Jacobs
Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them. — Henry David Thoreau
If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than… — G. H. Hardy
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy… — Sigmund Freud

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