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“A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity.” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” - 1929

“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“In everything on this earth that is worth doing, there is a stage when no one would do it, except for necessity or honor.” G. K. Chesterton, “What's Wrong with the World” - 1910

“In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.” Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” - 1776

“So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“Necessity is the mother of invention.” Aesop, “Aesop's Fables”

“When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity of work.” Henry Ford, “My Life and Work” - 1922

“Hence it is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity.” Niccolò Machiavelli, “The Prince” - 1532

“Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate with him that you could not imagine existence without him; then separation came, and everything went on in the same way, and the companion who...” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

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