#necessity

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. ↗

— William Safire

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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film. ↗

— Walter Salles

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The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along. ↗

— Walter Salles

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But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

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Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter. ↗

— Paul Bailey

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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. ↗

— Leon Edel

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