#necessity

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity. ↗

— Democritus

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Invention is the mother of necessity. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#mother #necessity

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ↗

— Jean Toomer

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There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now. ↗

— Clint Walker

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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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