#necessity

Physical contact is a human necessity. ↗

— David Byrne

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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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Necessity has no law. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. ↗

— Richard Owen

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I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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Necessity does the work of courage. ↗

— Nicholas M. Butler

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