“ Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite, And take it weel, that we may not eschu, And namely that that to us alle is due. ”
- Geoffrey Chaucer- Copy
- 1K
“ 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
- 153
“ Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. ”
- Larry Wall- Copy
- 423
“ What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men. ”
- Samuel Warren- Copy
- 429
“ 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- Copy
- 521
“ Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. ”
- Abigail Adams- Copy
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“ My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
- 597
“ I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
- 52
“ Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. ”
- Arnold Glasow- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The essential thing about democracy is that no one is indispensable. ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
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“ Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
- 3K
“ I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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