#requisite

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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The first requisite for immortality is death. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

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