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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

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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. ↗

— Bern Williams

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God. ↗

— Lactantius

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New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend. ↗

— John Lawson

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ↗

— Roger von Oech

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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be. ↗

— Origen

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Not even Ares battles against necessity. ↗

— Sophocles

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