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"necessity has no law." »William Langland
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"necessity knows no law." »Publilius Syrus
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"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." »Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing." »Victor Hugo
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"necessity, who is the mother of invention." »Plato, The Republic
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"necessity is the mother of invention." »Anonymous
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"necessity is the ethnicity of truth." »Kedar Joshi
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"Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having." »Margaret Lee Runbeck
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"Not even the gods fight against necessity." »Simonides
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"Invention is the mother of necessity." »Thorstein Veblen
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"necessity never made a good bargain." »Benjamin Franklin
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"A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury." »Eric Pio
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"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." »G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
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"Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Truth has beauty, power and necessity." »Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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"necessity makes even the timid brave." »Sallust, Roman historian and politician (c. 86-c. 35 B.C.)
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"necessity is the mother of taking chances." »Mark Twain
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"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul." »Henry David Thoreau, Simplify simplify
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"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity." »H. G.Wells, The Time Machine
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"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock." »Pablo Picasso
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"Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention." »Margaret Mead
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"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"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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"Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom." »William James
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"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
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"The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular." »George Santayana
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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
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"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
(Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)" »William Occam
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"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
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"Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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