#necessary

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#commercial #did #exist #invent #necessary

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#activity #along #been #being #could

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#attainable #certainly #closure #contributes #doubt

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. ↗

— William Wycherley

#beauty #handsome #i #i think #more

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#fire #ice #imagine #necessary #nostalgia

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#gun #necessary #only #order #rid

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. ↗

— Andre Gide

#did #i #important #important things #me

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#defects #existence #individuality #necessary

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it. ↗

— George Gilder

#culture #dispensable #family #feels #his

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive