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A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

Wise, Stupid, Advice

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Good, Men, Evil

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Men, Government

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss

Life, End, Laugh

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

Best, Government, Evil

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Peace, War

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice, Economic, Cause

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Dalai Lama

Help, Daily, Find

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

Pain, Human, May

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln

Give, Victory, Peaceful

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill

Best, Saying, Succeed

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi

Impossible, Start, Possible

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain

Work, Evil, Avoided

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Happy, Wife, Two

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa

Life, Love, Work

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Francis of Assisi

Words, Times, Gospel

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson

Power, Corruption, Country

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

Health, Learning, Rather

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Thomas Jefferson

Today, Tomorrow, Soldier

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

May, Mistake, Turn

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi

Human, Thought, Action

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis

Life, Respect, Daily

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Marriage, Makes

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill

Life, Work, Best

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Gratitude, Human, Feelings

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin

Morning, Death, Sleep

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald Reagan

Rights, Act, Favor

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Matter, Nor

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thought, Thoughts, Try

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