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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without. -- Oscar Wilde
Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd. -- Bernard de Mandeville
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries. -- Cher
Our necessities never equal our wants. -- Benjamin Franklin
Great necessities call out great virtues. -- Abigail Adams
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. -- Margaret Mead
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Mark Twain
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. -- George Bernard Shaw
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. -- Aldous Huxley
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. -- Dalai Lama
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. -- Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. -- Abigail Adams
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. -- Robert Orben
We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war. -- Joshua Chamberlain
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. -- Pope John Paul II
Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury. -- Marc Jacobs
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. -- Alice Foote MacDougall
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. -- Andrew Jackson
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. -- John Boyd Orr
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis. -- Brad Henry
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. -- Ezra Taft Benson
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA. -- David Suzuki
The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied. -- Ellen G. White
Kids can learn a lot about necessities and wants by recognizing what people live without. A common routine, but one that should not be overlooked, is having a family donation to a charity for those less fortunate. Ask your kids to search for items, toys, or clothes that they no longer use and contribute those items a collection box. -- Alexa Von Tobel
Beauty rests on necessities. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Invention is the mother of necessities. -- Marshall McLuhan
Morals and lights are our first necessities. -- Simon Bolivar
Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities. -- Andrew Carnegie
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them. -- Seneca the Younger
Free choice - a small selection between pre-established necessities. -- Herbert Marcuse
It is not music's function to express rational necessities. -- Artur Schnabel
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. -- George Bernard Shaw
Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses. -- Ian Gardner
so few in reality are the true necessities of man -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities. -- Oscar Wilde
Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time. -- Lucas Leiva
Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal? -- Jaco Pastorius
the luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many ... -- Flora Thompson
Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied. -- Aristotle
When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness. -- Alistair Begg
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. -- Carl Sandburg
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. -- Oscar Wilde
The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious. -- William Shakespeare
poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs. -- Dervla Murphy
He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself. -- Josemaria Escriva
Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities! -- Oscar Wilde
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. -- Dalai Lama XIV
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. -- John Lothrop Motley
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries. -- Mark Halperin
Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning. -- Barbara Fredrickson
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. -- Joseph Conrad
A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. -- Eric Hoffer
In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities. -- Adam Braun
Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. -- Plutarch
The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile. -- George Orwell
Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path. -- Thomas E. Mann
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. -- Ernest Hemingway
What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed. -- Susan Griffin
Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make. -- Elizabeth Bishop
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn. -- Abraham Lincoln
Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. -- Jimmy Carter
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. -- Samuel Johnson
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty -- Eartha Kitt
Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty. -- Eartha Kitt
Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts. -- Ron Fournier
Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice. -- Peter Dale Scott
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. -- Eric Hoffer
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty. -- Charles Spurgeon
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities. -- David Heinemeier Hansson
Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina. -- Jo Bonner
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. -- Alfred North Whitehead
in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries. -- Nora Ephron
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. -- Baruch Spinoza
Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament. -- Herbert Hoover
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. -- Hannah Arendt
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him. -- Thomas Jefferson
The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities. -- Catherine Camus
There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit. -- Michael Josephson
There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times. -- William Shakespeare
Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities -- John Warren Kindt
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth. -- Barry Commoner
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. -- John Updike
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. -- Alexander Hamilton
Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace. -- Anatole France
For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time. -- Emma Goldman
He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. -- Oliver Cromwell
India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them. -- Santha Rama Rau
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave. -- Pope Benedict XVI
I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible. -- Michael Sandel
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require. -- Alexander Hamilton
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities. -- Simone Weil
It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life. -- John Sherman
Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness. -- George Washington
And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities. -- Rowan Atkinson
It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life. -- Henry David Thoreau
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found. -- Epicurus
In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not -- Lucretia Mott
To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art. -- Horace Kephart
Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . . It is essential for us to live within our means. -- Thomas S. Monson
Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings. -- George S. Clason

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