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The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.
William Godwin
Thoughts
Mind
Free
Frame
Object
Lawless
Development
Steps
Equally
His
Than
Child
Should
Body
Flies
Less
Necessary
There is an indescribable something that ties us to life. For this purpose, it is not necessary that we should be happy. Though our life be almost without enjoyment, we do not consent to part with it.
William Godwin
Life
Be Happy
Happy
Our
Though
Indescribable
Something
Purpose
Part
Almost
Ties
Without
Us
Should
Enjoyment
Necessary
Consent
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
William Gurnall
Other
Humility
Veil
Graces
Necessary
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.
William H. Seward
Minority
Add
States
Claim
Only
Absurdity
Majority
Reduce
Very
Which
Disproportionate
Necessary
Slavery
Slaves
Two
In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.
William H. Wharton
Together
People
Those
Colonists
Between
Make
Ties
None
Existed
Mexicans
Which
Them
Bind
Necessary
Last
It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.
William Hague
Back
Direct
Compromises
Make
Track
Talks
Israelis
Get
Required
Palestinians
Necessary
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
William Inge
Religion
Become
Philosophy
Enslave
Only
Superstition
Popular
Necessary
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
William Jennings Bryan
Government
Rights
Word
Will
Free
Duty
Omit
States
Citizens
Imperial
Sacred
Sacred Duty
Performance
Maintaining
Safeguarding
Exercise
German
Expect
Any
Act
United
United States
Enjoyment
Necessary
For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Life
Cause
Become
Few
Restrictions
Another
Impose
Commodities
Use
Many
Including
Necessary
Necessities
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
William Robertson Smith
Religion
Man
Welfare
Political
Community
Every
Society
Saving
Take
Had
He
Part
Souls
His
Exist
Domestic
End
Did
Break
Which
Necessary
Belonged
Every Man
Preservation
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
William Samuel Johnson
Hope
Sickness
Poverty
Every
Would
Miseries
Comfort
Without
Condition
Captivity
Necessary
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
William Vickrey
Welfare
Evil
Deficits
Proper
Terms
Greater
Greater Evil
Mitigate
Unemployment
Human
Far
Means
Larger
Necessary
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
William Wycherley
Woman
Ugly
Beauty
Young
Think
More
Wit
Without
Than
Handsome
Young Woman
Agreeable
Necessary
I feel really fortunate and grateful that not only do I get to do what I love, but I get to do it and serve a conversation that I feel is necessary culturally. The fact that I get to bring those two passions together is amazing to me - that I get to use my art in order to inform my activism and vice versa!
Wilson Cruz
Love
Art
Me
Conversation
Together
Grateful
Amazing
Vice Versa
Those
Only
Fact
Feel
Passions
Versa
Get
Order
Vice
Inform
Really
Use
Fortunate
Activism
Serve
Necessary
Bring
Two
It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
Yanni
Music
Me
Never
Learn
Read
How
Been
Necessary
The values of integrity and hard work are necessary for the development of our nation.
Yemi Osinbajo
Work
Hard Work
Integrity
Values
Nation
Our
Development
Hard
Necessary
Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.
Yoshihiko Noda
Will
Country
Situation
Difficult
Think
Marines
Increasingly
Our
Location
Security
Only
Deterrence
Alliance
Thus
Maintaining
Importance
Surrounding
Japan
Standpoint
Strategic
Grow
Keep
Necessary
I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
Yusef Komunyakaa
Witness
Define
Say
Kind
Daring
Responsible
Something
Risk
Poetry
Perhaps
Know
Because
Discovering
Existential
Question
Questioning
Celebration
Often
Energetic
Confrontation
Necessary
Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
Zac Brown
Me
Other
Purpose
Higher
Very
Than
Getting
Just
Being
Successful
Necessary
The IMF played crucial roles in the 1980s debt crisis and in the transformation of former communist economies. Radical change, many might argue, is neither necessary nor desirable.
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Change
Transformation
Radical
IMF
Crisis
Neither
Argue
Crucial
Economies
Nor
Debt
Roles
Former
Might
Communist
Radical Change
Many
Played
Necessary
Desirable
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Leadership
Peace
World
Prosperity
Our
System
Strive
Could
Supporting
Doing
Expand
Stable
Which
Should
Europe
International
Therefore
Foundation
Larger
Necessary
Zone
We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
Zhang Zhidong
Religion
Three
First
Revolution
Conserve
State
Would
Maintain
Protect
Done
Order
China
Dynasty
Chinese
Race
Holy
Reigning
Now
Things
Necessary
Second
Here
Third
Save
Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
Zoe Kravitz
Love
Art
Important
Tell
Something
Feel
Making
Just
Stories
Just Something
Acting
Necessary
Honest
There are tradeoffs between independence and co-operation, between regulatory autonomy and market access. This means that compromises are necessary to deliver a pragmatic Brexit that protects jobs and living standards while respecting the referendum result.
David Gauke
Result
Independence
Living
Market
Market Access
Respecting
Jobs
Compromises
Deliver
Between
Protects
Access
Pragmatic
Referendum
Autonomy
While
Co-Operation
Means
Brexit
Standards
Regulatory
Necessary
In terms of addressing crime issues in the black community, the dominant political class has historically refused to endorse the full slate of reforms along lines of education, economic security, housing, etc, necessary to address the root causes.
James Forman, Jr.
Education
Class
Political
Crime
Black
Community
Address
Addressing
Security
Black Community
Economic
Economic Security
Along
Terms
Housing
Causes
Issues
Political Class
Lines
Historically
Dominant
Reforms
Endorse
Refused
Etc
Root
Full
Necessary
Slate
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'Rourke
Politics
Evil
Annoyance
Necessary
Necessary Evil
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