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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Bernanke The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Norman Mailer The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Peter Carey The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
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    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Henry Miller The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Updike The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Carlos Ghosn The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Malcolm X The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
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    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Charles J. Givens The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.
    Charles J. Givens
    American businessman, writer, teacher
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  • André Gide The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Bobby Scott The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Francis Lockier The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
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  • Bob Newhart The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Edmund Burke The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Owen Davies The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
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  • Karl Marx The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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