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"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."

"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."

"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."

"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object."

"The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man, therefore increase your necessity."

"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."
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"Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels."

"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."

"In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write."

"The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation."

"And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was."

"The narrator refers to a character as 'an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them."

"Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation."

"For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home."
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