"Plurality should not be posited without necessity." — William of Occam

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• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. — Saint Augustine
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• The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to… — John Adams
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• The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. — Robert Benchley
• Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes… — John Berger
• Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with… — Annie Besant
• Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though… — Annie Besant
• Physical contact is a human necessity. — David Byrne
• The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. — Lord Byron

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