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"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
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"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object."

"For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk."

"Is it not necessary to eat? Is it not necessary to go to the toilet? They are necessary. In the same way, money is also required. Just as one does not have to think about going to the toilet; it happens automatically, in the same way, money comes without you having to think about it."

"Once one's vision changes to, 'I don't have a sofa in my house', he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the 'necessity'."

"It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones."

"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon."

"A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener."

"I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative."
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"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

"When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man."

"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without regretting the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom."

"Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning."
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