Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

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About Euripides

Portrait of Euripides

Euripides (; Ancient Greek: Eὐριπίδης, romanized: Eurīpídēs, pronounced [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]; c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays...

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I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

—Norman Mailer

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You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

—Gloria Naylor

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Awareness is not something that needs to be manufactured: when there is a gap, awareness enters into us. So awareness does not require a certain particular effort. Such an effort is unnecessary. Awareness is like a wind. If you open your doors and windows, it is bound to come in.

—Chögyam Trungpa in The Path is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation

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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

—William Pitt

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