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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. -- Karl Marx
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. -- Samuel Richardson
Nature means Necessity. -- Philip James Bailey
Necessity dispenseth with decorum. -- Thomas Carlyle
Necessity has no law. -- Oliver Cromwell
Necessity knows no law. -- Aesop
Necessity is God's veil. -- Simone Weil
Necessity knows no rules. -- August Strindberg
Necessity knows no Sunday. -- Agnes Repplier
Necessity does everything well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity, mother of invention. -- William Wycherley
Necessity urges desperate measures. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Necessity inspires the fatal thought. -- Vittorio Alfieri
Necessity, the mother of invention. -- George Farquhar
Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness. -- Ron Suskind
Necessity makes dastards valiant men. -- Robert Herrick
Necessity is a violent school-mistress. -- Michel de Montaigne
Necessity is our quickest excuse. -- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity is stronger than duty. -- Seneca the Younger
Necessity... the mother of invention. -- Plato
Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Necessity makes even the timid brave. -- Sallust
Necessity moderates more troubles than reason. -- Luc de Clapiers
Necessity is the author of change. -- Tim Hansel
Necessity, thou mother of the world! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Necessity is the ethnicity of truth. -- Kedar Joshi
Necessity does not submit to debate. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
Necessity never made a good bargain. -- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity is stronger far than art. -- Aeschylus
Necessity is a guardian in Nature. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Necessity makes heroes of us all. -- Mason Cooley
Necessity is the spur of genius. -- Honore de Balzac
Necessity is the last and strongest weapon -- Livy
Necessity is literally the mother of invention. -- Plato
I have found nothing stronger than Necessity. -- Euripides
Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity is often the mother of balls -- Nora Roberts
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. -- Mark Twain
Necessity makes an honest man a knave. -- Daniel Defoe
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve. -- Euripides
Necessity has the face of a dog. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Necessity is the mother of all invention. -- Albert Einstein
Necessity knows no law except to conquer. -- Publilius Syrus
Necessity is often the spur to genius. -- Honore de Balzac
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. -- Horace
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure. -- Luc de Clapiers
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. -- Luc de Clapiers
Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children. -- Timothy Dwight V
Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention. -- Plato
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich. -- Tacitus
Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things. -- Pliny the Younger
Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it. -- Publilius Syrus
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. -- Walter Scott
Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same. -- Benjamin Franklin
If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone. -- Mason Cooley
Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father. -- Alex Faickney Osborn
The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love. -- Richard B. Garnett
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate. -- John Milton
Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. -- William Cowper
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. -- Mason Cooley
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy -- Joseph Joubert
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. -- Michael Josephson
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws. -- Michel de Montaigne
Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World. -- Richard B. Garnett
Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity. -- Epicurus
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention. -- William Shenstone
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. -- Joseph Conrad
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. -- William Faulkner
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us. -- Philip James Bailey
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. -- Francis Quarles
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. -- E. B. White
The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was. -- Rachel Hartman
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? -- Thomas Huxley
Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision. -- Margaret Barber
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. -- Edward Abbey
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. -- John McCain
If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. -- Thomas A. Edison
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. -- Baruch Spinoza
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. -- Emily Dickinson
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism. -- Saint Basil
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. -- Raymond Chandler
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 Jung
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. -- Ernst Mach
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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. -- John F. Kennedy
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. -- Jacques Ellul
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. -- Ayn Rand
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. -- Arne Jacobsen
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. -- Isabel Allende
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. -- Albert Camus
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. -- Phyllis George
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water. -- Ray Charles
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born. -- Charles Krauthammer
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God. -- Annie Besant
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. -- J. K. Rowling
Chance and necessity. -- Jacques Monod
Accident is veiled necessity. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
And nature must obey necessity. -- William Shakespeare
Fate and necessity are unconquerable. -- Joseph Joubert
Characters are born from necessity. -- Christopher Paolini
We make allowance for necessity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Out of necessity comes genius. -- Pam Grier
Beauty is a social necessity. -- James Goldsmith
Pardon is granted to necessity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Make a virtue of necessity. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
Invention is the mother of necessity. -- Thorstein Veblen
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity. -- Gioachino Rossini
Everything that happens, happens of necessity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Not even Ares battles against necessity. -- Sophocles

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