Not even the gods fight against necessity.

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

—Edward Abbey

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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

—Albert Einstein

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As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

—Ernest Hemingway

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Invention is the mother of necessity.

—Thorstein Veblen

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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

—Robert Motherwell

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