#necessity

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity. ↗

— Sean Parker

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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity. ↗

— Pindar

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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. ↗

— Charles Ives

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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

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The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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