#necessary

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

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When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I? ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#book #character #character development #development #i

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #caresses #die #expressions #leaves

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#covering #decisions #everything #eyes #fbi

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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