#necessities

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men. ↗

— Francis Wright

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money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#money

Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina. ↗

— Jo Bonner

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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

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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