#necessity

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water. ↗

— Ray Charles

#already #arrived #blood #born #food

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

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I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

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We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#faced #lot #men #navigation #necessity

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before. ↗

— John Ashcroft

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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#human spirit #luxury #necessity #spirit #wilderness

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. ↗

— John Adams

#doubted #flea #hang #kill #more

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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