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Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
I feel like breaking barriers is necessary because man created barriers, which keep us separated as human beings.
I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.
The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
It's also not true that 'abuse of power' is not impeachable, or that a statutory crime is necessary for impeachment.
Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
When you love someone, or when someone is special to you, there are situations where little white lies are necessary.
Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.
It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
Greatness consists in deciding only what is necessary for the welfare of the country and making straight for the goal.
Life isn't a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn't get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane.
I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.
Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.
Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.
My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Sometimes it's necessary for your sanity to hone in on the things that you love and the people you enjoy hanging out with.
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.