“ Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by. ”
- Oliver Cromwell- Copy
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“ Who ordained that the few should have the land of Britain as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth? ”
- David Lloyd George- Copy
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“ Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself. ”
- King George V- Copy
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“ Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too. ”
- Jan Morris- Copy
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“ Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The greatest part of mankind... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. ”
- Bruce Barton- Copy
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“ Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ”
- Kofi Annan- Copy
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“ You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body. ”
- Bob Guccione- Copy
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“ We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know Jesus in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
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“ The rule of brotherhood remains as the indispensable prerequisite to success in the kind of national life for which we strive. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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“ The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. ”
- Marguerite Gardiner- Copy
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“ The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
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“ Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. ”
- Marlon Brando- Copy
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“ Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul. ”
- Edwin P. Whipple- Copy
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“ The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them. ”
- Bruce Mau- Copy
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“ I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all. ”
- Jerry Doyle- Copy
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“ Perhaps a new sort of feminist politics is now desirable to contest the very reifications of gender and identity, one that will take the variable construction of identity as both a methodological and normative prerequisite, if not a political goal. ”
- Judith Butler- Copy
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“ We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach. The answer is simple: if you want something very badly, you can achieve it. It may take patience, very hard work, a real struggle, and a long time; but it can be done… ”
- Margo Jones- Copy
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