#necessity

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity. ↗

— Pindar

#necessity #whatever

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#builds #choice #choose #escape #every

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ↗

— Odilon Redon

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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Invention is the mother of necessity. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#mother #necessity

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. ↗

— Euripides

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ↗

— Jean Toomer

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ↗

— Voltaire

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There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now. ↗

— Clint Walker

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