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The superfluous, a very necessary thing. -- Voltaire
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing. -- Jessamyn West
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. -- Anne Baxter
Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary. -- Gregory Skovoroda
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. -- John Dryden
Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is. -- Don Meyer
... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well. -- Myrtle Reed
The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. -- Epictetus
Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things. -- Kathleen Norris
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.] -- Horace
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. -- Victor Hugo
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. -- Rachel Carson
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
I believe that the most necessary thing to do on the feast of Corpus Christi is not to explain some aspect of the Eucharist, but to revive wonder and marvel before the mystery. -- Raniero Cantalamessa
Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine. -- Nikki Giovanni
Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two. -- Ray Bradbury
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet. -- Toni Morrison
When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing. -- Ole Hallesby
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different. -- J. K. Rowling
The first state an actor experiences onstage is the one he just experienced in life. One needs great courage not to portray this experience. One must surrender entirely to the power of one s artistic nature. It will do all the necessary things. Do not impose any solution upon yourself in advance. The quality to develop in an actor is courage. -- Yevgeny Vakhtangov
There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder. -- George Bernard Shaw
In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time. -- Owen Feltham
He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. -- Wendell Berry
No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. -- William of Ockham
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. -- Warren Buffett
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all. -- Richard Baxter
Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Beaumarchais
Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance? -- Terence McKenna
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary -- Richard Baxter
It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things. -- Billy Sunday
To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money. -- Gian Giacomo Trivulzio
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them. -- Pierre Beaumarchais
Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right. -- Hillary Jordan
I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary. -- Raf Simons
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for. -- Plutarch
The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought. -- Carroll Smith
In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity. -- Saint Augustine
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. -- Baron de Montesquieu
He who gives you the day will also give you the things necessary for the day. -- Gregory of Nyssa
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
One of the things I've suggested is that it may be that more 9/11s are necessary. -- Ward Churchill
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. -- Aristotle Onassis
It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly. -- Peter HÃ¸eg
The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place. -- Anita Diament
Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing. -- Richard Rohr
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible. -- Lisa Gansky
Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend. -- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things. -- Christian Louboutin
In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die. -- Luc de Clapiers
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit. -- Dwight L. Moody
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them. -- Victor Hugo
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre -- Leo Tolstoy
Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life. -- Maria Montessori
Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God. -- Wallace D. Wattles
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things. -- Plutarch
When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary. -- Terry Pratchett
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life. -- Marion Milner
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things -- Leo Tolstoy
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. -- William Gilmore Simms
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. -- Michael Bloomberg
Some people say they want things, but when push comes to shove they don't do what is necessary to achieve it. -- Natalie Cook
Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest. -- Margaret Deland
I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along. -- Terrence Howard
Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown. -- Daryl Hannah
Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things. -- Akio Morita
Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness. -- John Harricharan
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. -- William Hazlitt
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary. -- Baruch Spinoza
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important. -- Domhnall Gleeson
Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious. -- Richard Baxter
Italy wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary. -- Benito Mussolini
When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God. -- Brother Lawrence
What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things... Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts. -- Michael Moore
I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all. -- Jean-Francois Millet
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. -- Michel Foucault
It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life. -- Eckhart Tolle
Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others. -- Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
I don't enjoy trying things on, even though most times it's necessary. I tend to only shop online, which is so dangerous for me. -- Stella Hudgens
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. -- Andre Gide
To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction. -- Namkhai Norbu
It is absolutely necessary, both for our advancement and the salvation of others, to follow always and in all things the beautiful light of faith -- St. Vincent
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. -- Og Mandino
No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. -- Thomas Aquinas
I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things. -- Teddy Pendergrass
Christians are not in bondage to do things as the world does, and moreover, the traditions and rudiments of men are not necessary to honor God. -- Monica Johnson
It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space. -- Hans Hofmann
Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself. -- Melody Beattie
Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men. -- Diogenes Laertius
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -- Rene Descartes
Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. -- George Bernard Shaw
I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn't necessary make me a very spiritual person. -- Werner Herzog
The kind of operation that is necessary to help us out of our dualistic thinking is a nondual experience. Then we begin to see things as one again. -- Haridas Chaudhuri
It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone. -- Jenny Holzer
I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates. -- Dion Fortune
Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were. -- Robert Greene
One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see. -- Giorgio Morandi
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. -- Abraham Maslow
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
It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth. -- Thomas Moore
Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. -- Albert J. Nock
Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. -- Leo Tolstoy

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