#necessity

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

#absolute necessity #act #after #became #congress

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

#adventure #become #commodity #either #into

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity. ↗

— Sean Parker

#creepy #good #look #necessity #today

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#body #calls #cast #dimension #else

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#altogether #argue #certain #experience #fundamentalism

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#action #away #bold #favorite #fear

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#called #integrity #invention #may #mother

Necessity does the work of courage. ↗

— Nicholas M. Butler

#does #necessity #work