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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.
Planning
Jo Coudert

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
Belief
Norman Cousins

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It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
Enemies
Frank Dane

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It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.
Light
M. R. Dehaan

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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Simplicity
Rene Descartes

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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Sacrifice
Bernadette Devlin

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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Genius
Benjamin Disraeli

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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
John Dryden

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
Truth
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Necessity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Change
Lucius C. Falkland

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A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
Parents and Parenting
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Mistakes
Henry Ford

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Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Impossibility
St. Francis of Assisi

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For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
Miracles
Nancy Gibbs

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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Faults
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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A sin is something which is not necessary.
Sin
George Gurdjieff

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Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
Service
Nathan Hale

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Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
Committees and Meetings
Richard Harkness

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Faith
William Hazlitt

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Age and Aging
Ernest Hemingway

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Simplicity
Hans Hofmann

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Government
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Religion
Dean William R. Inge

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun