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Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men. – Saint Augustine
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. – Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. – John Milton
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. – John Piper
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need. – Warren Bennis
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. – Mark Twain
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. – Carl Gustav Jung
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament) – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. – Victor Hugo
A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury. – Eric Pio
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.) – William Occam
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. – Ayn Rand
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. – Simone Weil
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee. – W.C. Fields
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having. – Margaret Lee Runbeck
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents. – Phyllis Mcginley
Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. – E. B. White
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. – Agatha Christie
Invention is the mother of necessity. – Thorstein Veblen
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity. – G. K. Chesterton
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. – G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. – Bertrand Russell
Men are so simple, and yield so much to necessity, that he who will deceive may always find him that will lend himself to be deceived. – Machiavelli

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