There ought to be a law against necessity.


E. Y. Harburg

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I cannot quite believe in God,
But, oh, I hope to God th...
E. Y. HARBURG
O innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse:
To let a fool kiss you is stu...
E. Y. HARBURG
'For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice ...
E. Y. HARBURG
O innocent victims of Cupid,Remember this terse little verse:To let a fool kiss you is stupid,To let...
E. Y. HARBURG
You're paid to stop a bullet.It's a soldier's job, they say.And so you stop your bullet,And then the...
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No matter how much I probe and prodI cannot quite believe in God,But, oh, I hope to God that HeUnswe...
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
E. Y. HARBURG
You've got to S-M-I-L-E
To be H-A-Double-P-Y
SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK
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CHARLES STEVENS
There are two things that are without law, God and necessity.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushin...
RUSH LIMBAUGH
Necessity has no law.
OLIVER CROMWELL
Necessity has no law.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Necessity has no law.
WILLIAM LANGLAND
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Necessity gives the law, but does not itself submit to it
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
There should be a law against doing work one doesn't like or believe in.
MARTY RUBIN
There already is a present law against torture,
DUNCAN HUNTER
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
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A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]
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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.
MOLESCHOLTE
The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.
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JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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DANTE ALIGHIERI
It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.
CASSANDRA CLARE
There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.
UNARINE RAMARU
Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition.
JOHN WAGSTAFF
Not even the gods fight against necessity.
SIMONIDES
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BILL CAYLOR
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THOMAS CARLYLE
You cannot spell prosperity, without i-s and p-r-o-p-e-r-t-y
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MARIA CALLAS
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
Retiring should be against the law. It's a waste of time.
DAVE FAVRE
Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed...
ANN EDWARDS CANNON
I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
EDDIE HUANG
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ANDREW BRIMMER
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People ought to fight
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as to defend the citys walls.
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Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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don't do it.
unless it...
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I I I I I I t t t t t t i i i i i i s s s s s s u u u u u u n n n n n n f f f f f f o o o o o o r r ...
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
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There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
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The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
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PETRA PAU
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EDGAR QUINET
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Wherever you are, be all there.
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent wh...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the ca...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has t...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the h...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the p...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an a...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Law is born from despair of human nature.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
To live is to feel oneself lost
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to l...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Sólo hay una Razón para negar la Obviedad : Resistirse a admitirla ".
FERNANDO GONZáLEZ Y LOZANO
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coercive...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvati...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
La belleza que atrae rara vez coincide con la belleza que enamora.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of ma...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Le premier signe de l'ignorance, c'est de présumer que l'on sait.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Y MORALES
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generati...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradi...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Li...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
On the Bigotry of Culture:
: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
Desde el siglo XVI ha entrado la humanidad toda en un proceso gigantesco de unificación, que en nue...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be us...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET