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Necessity

(noun) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite. Example: "I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined."

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"Good wine is a necessity of life for me."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
— Plato
"The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life."
— George Bernard Shaw
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
— Dalai Lama

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