#necessity

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. ↗

— Bern Williams

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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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Plurality should not be posited without necessity. ↗

— William of Occam

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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ↗

— Roger von Oech

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Not even Ares battles against necessity. ↗

— Sophocles

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Necessity makes even the timid brave. ↗

— Sallust

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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. ↗

— Nelson Algren

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The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

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Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread? ↗

— Ron Sider

#christianity #compassion #fashion #hunger #luxury