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Saturday, June 1st, 2024
the Week of Proper 3 / Ordinary 8
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Quotations regarding 'Necessity'

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The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
Twyla Tharp, American Dancer (1941-  )
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau, American Author (1817-1862)
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, French Scientist (1805-1859)
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
Clyde Tombaugh, American Scientist (1906-1997)
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Jean Toomer, American Author (1894-1967)
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Leon Trotsky, Russian Revolutionary (1879-1940)
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. Truman, American President (1884-1972)
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
Benjamin Tucker, American Activist (1854-1939)
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
Martin Farquhar Tupper, English Writer
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
Ivan Turgenev, Russian Novelist (1818-1883)
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain, American Author (1835-1910)
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Raoul Vaneigem, Belgian Philosopher
Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen, American Economist (1857-1929)
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
Jones Very, American Poet
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire, French Writer (1694-1778)
There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.
Clint Walker, American Actor (1927-  )
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall, Canadian Author (1949-  )
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist (1823-1913)
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
Robert Walpole, British Statesman (1676-1745)
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Josiah Warren, American Inventor
 
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