#necessity

I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me. ↗

— M.C. Humphreys

#necessity #life

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#love #necessity #love

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. ↗

— Man Ray

#create #creates #creation #desire #divine

Un miros de sărac, un miros de violență, de necesitatea de a parveni. ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

#necessity #poverty #smell #violence #inspirational

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#else #everything #first #guns #imperative

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me. ↗

— Steve Swallow

#because #devise #found #i #impacted

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗

— Bernard Barton

#absolute #absolute necessity #age #below #beneath

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. ↗

— John Betjeman

#like #luxury #many #me #modern

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#cannot #carried #could #days #elude