Necessity

(27 votes)   Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.

Jonathan Schattke

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(151 votes)   Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(112 votes)   Foul water will quench fire.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(110 votes)   Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

Joseph De Maistre
1753-1821, French Diplomat, Philosopher

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(107 votes)   Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(104 votes)   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.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(83 votes)   Necessity has the face of a dog.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1928-, Colombian Writer

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(83 votes)   We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(78 votes)   Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt
1759-1806, British Statesman

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(77 votes)   To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(74 votes)   The superfluous is very necessary.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(71 votes)   If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(71 votes)   Necessity does everything well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(71 votes)   We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(68 votes)   Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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