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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. John Berger | top
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But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity. Felix Bloch | top
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I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life. Alex Campbell | top
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. Gilbert K. Chesterton | top
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The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. Robert Creeley | top
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Necessity has no law. Oliver Cromwell | top
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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. Leon Edel | top
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Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. Martin H. Fischer | top
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Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. Phyllis George | top
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Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. Arnold H. Glasgow | top
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The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based. Theodor Herzl | top
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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity. James Hillman | top
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg | top
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. Niccolo Machiavelli | top
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Necessity has the face of a dog. Gabriel Garcia Marquez | top
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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 | top
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. Roger von Oech | top
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It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. John C. Ransom | top
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Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it. Mercedes Ruehl | top
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Not even Ares battles against necessity. Sophocles | top
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. Baruch Spinoza | top
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. Madame de Stael | top
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We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. Clyde Tombaugh | top
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As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works. Jones Very | top
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I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. Robert Walpole | top
