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Necessity Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof…
- Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and…
- So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity… — Albert Einstein
- Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. — Oscar Wilde
- For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of… — B R Ambedkar
- In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan
- In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to… — Mark Twain
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.