#necessity

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

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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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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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Necessity never made a good bargain. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

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Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

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