Quotes with necessities

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  • Mark Twain Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty rests on necessities.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Mark Twain Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Updike For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Abigail Adams Great necessities call out great virtues.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Aldous Huxley Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.
    The Fable of the Bees An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools, p. 328
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Cher Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
    Cher
    American singer and actress (1946 - )
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  • Brad Henry No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Our necessities never equal our wants.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.
    Saint Joan (1923)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brande Roderick That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.
    Brande Roderick
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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