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“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”
Oscar Wilde
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
Albert Einstein
“Necessity never made a good bargain”
Benjamin Franklin
“Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"”
Mark Twain
“Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
Augustine of Hippo
“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”
Maya Angelou
