#necessity

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. ↗

— Max Eastman

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Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps. ↗

— Elizabeth George

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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

#belonging #connect #crafts #create #express

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers. ↗

— William Petty

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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. ↗

— John Adams

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It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue. ↗

— Eric Bana

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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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