#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

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Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#education #imperative #making #many #moral

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. ↗

— Will Eisner

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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful. ↗

— Lori Greiner

#absolute necessity #good #good mind #i #invest

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#love #necessity #love