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Tag Name "Necessity" (987)

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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
Tacitus
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Necessity does not submit to debate.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
Luc de Clapiers
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Necessity inspires the fatal thought.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Necessity is the spur of genius.
Honore de Balzac
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Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
Alexander Hamilton
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Necessity knows no law.
Aesop
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Albert Einstein
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
Michel de Montaigne
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Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.
Blaise Pascal
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Necessity makes heroes of us all.
Mason Cooley
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Necessity knows no law I know some attorneys of the same.
Benjamin Franklin
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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
Robert Herrick
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Necessity does everything well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
Joseph Conrad
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
William Shenstone
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
John Milton
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Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
Chuck Klosterman
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Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
Oliver Cromwell
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe
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Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Necessity is God's veil.
Simone Weil
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