If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, mans greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. – Eric Hoffer

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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity. – Albert Camus

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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. – Johann von Goethe

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Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness. – Sir Terence Conran

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