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THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind? -- Alan Redpath
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all. -- Richard Baxter
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- James Madison
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. -- W. Edwards Deming
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones. -- Robert Mugabe
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -- Francis of Assisi
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. -- Henry Ford
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. -- Thomas Aquinas
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. -- Thomas Paine
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. -- Winston Churchill
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. -- Claude Monet
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. -- Eliot Spitzer
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. -- Vladimir Lenin
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. -- Richard Bach
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. -- Winston Churchill
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -- Dr. Seuss
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. -- Jim Carrey
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. -- Thomas Aquinas
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. -- C. S. Lewis
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. -- Carl Jung
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -- Dr. Seuss
We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals. -- Oliver North
A necessary monster. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Is uniformitarianism necessary? -- Stephen Jay Gould
By any means necessary. -- Malcolm X
Be kinder than necessary. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A harmless necessary cat. -- William Shakespeare
Expressing anger is necessary. -- Jenny Holzer
The superfluous is very necessary. -- Voltaire
Make youself necessary to someone. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary. -- Rodney Harrison
Change is wonderful, and necessary. -- Darren Johnson
Make yourself necessary to somebody. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. -- Aldous Huxley
Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary. -- Oscar Wilde
Always be kinder than necessary. -- James M. Barrie
Always say less than necessary. -- Robert Greene
Truth is a necessary phantom. -- Mason Cooley
Faith is necessary to victory. -- William Hazlitt
Marriage is a necessary evil -- Amit Abraham
Dialogue is a necessary evil. -- Fred Zinnemann
Government is a necessary evil -- Thomas Paine
Giving is a necessary good -- Chinonye J. Chidolue
Dreams are necessary to life. -- Anais Nin
Love the necessary hard work. -- Danielle LaPorte
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary. -- Anne Carson
The superfluous is the most necessary. -- Voltaire
The Iraq war was not necessary. -- Scott McClellan
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage. -- Milton H. Erickson
Be a politician; no training necessary. -- Will Rogers
The superfluous, a very necessary thing. -- Voltaire
Preach always. Use words if necessary. -- Francis of Assisi
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary. -- Samuel Richardson
Hope is necessary in every condition. -- Samuel Johnson
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice. -- Hilary Mantel
Sovereignty is as necessary as ever. -- Pauline Marois
Love is not necessary for sex. -- Patricia Briggs
Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it -- Guy Debord
Virtue is necessary to a republic. -- Baron de Montesquieu
What is necessary is never unwise. -- Ben Cross
Habit is necessary to give power. -- William Hazlitt
Never say more than is necessary. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A public is a necessary fiction. -- Rowan Williams
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. -- Jack Spicer
Failure is a necessary ingredient for success. -- Bran Ferren
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. -- Benjamin Disraeli
It is necessary; therefore, it is possible. -- Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. -- Samuel Johnson
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. -- Jose Marti
We feel it's necessary to reduce accommodation. -- Michael H. Moskow
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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. -- Charles Baudelaire
Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty. -- Charles Baudelaire
Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary. -- Paul Scott
We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary. -- Caterina Fake
Rebellion is necessary for development of character. -- Cynthia Voigt
Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all. -- Ben Stiller
Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary. -- Fernando Pessoa
Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour. -- Donald Knuth
Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary. -- Gertrude Stein
Experience is necessary for us to grow. -- Marianne Williamson
Justice by any and all means necessary. -- Marilyn Mosby
What is necessary is to rectify names. -- Confucius
Worrying is a necessary part of life. -- Mary Tyler Moore
Banking is necessary - banks are not. -- Bill Gates
What is necessary is never a risk. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Are women necessary? Not with Ava around -- Maureen Dowd
A baseball manager is a necessary evil. -- Sparky Anderson
Always be a little kinder than necessary. -- James M. Barrie
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary. -- Edgar Allan Poe
All necessary truth is its own evidence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We monsters are necessary to nature also. -- Marquis de Sade
Always be a littler kinder than necessary. -- James M. Barrie
Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. -- Paul Tillich
A joke is necessary at this time. -- Grace Paley
I have the necessary lack of tact. -- Ted Koppel
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing. -- Jessamyn West
Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment. -- Pearl Cleage
Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally. -- Radhanath Swami
Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Planning cities is a necessary but risky business. -- Cate Blanchett
Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship. -- Aristotle
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. -- Mark Twain
Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence. -- Garrett Hardin
Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary. -- Karl Marx
Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient. -- Mason Cooley
Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions. -- Benjamin Peirce
Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. -- Leigh Hunt
Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers. -- Marilyn Ferguson
The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72) -- Swami Satchidananda

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