To such minute deductions is it necessary to resort when records are scarce, and to be of value the explanation must be in harmony with the conditions of the period; subsequent research has verified the foregoing conclusions.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

It is necessary to remark here that merely because something has been written when feelings are brimming over, it is not therefore necessarily good.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

For otherwise it is not to rise, it is to fall.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Though it is not very probable that any part of a tax, which is not only imposed upon one of the most proper subjects of taxation, a mere luxury and superfluity, but which affords so very important a revenue as the tax upon silver, will ever be given up as long as it is possible to pay it; yet the same impossibility of paying it, which, in 1736. made it necessary to reduce it from one-fifth to one-tenth, may in time make it necessary to reduce it still further; in the same manner as it made it necessary to reduce the tax upon gold to one-twentieth.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

* It is necessary to realize that the force of the masses is blind, unreasoning and unintelligent, prone to listen now to the right, and now to the left * *
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

It has been suggested that the Spaniards may have changed the Indian name to resemble that of a town in Spain.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

…” “Ach, Timofyevna, why it was I, not the red beard, it was I pulled him away from you by his hair, this morning; the landlord came the day before yesterday to make a row; you’ve mixed it up.” “Stay, I really have mixed it up.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If not too refined, at all events too remote, too shadowy, and unsubstantial in his modes of development to suit the taste of the latter class, and yet too popular to satisfy the spiritual or metaphysical requisitions of the former, he must necessarily find himself without an audience, except here and there an individual or possibly an isolated clique.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[193] In estimating the shaping influences, designated by us as fundamental, which undoubtedly were exerted upon the Fairy-Faith through the practice of exorcism, it is necessary to realize that this animistic practice holds a very important position in the Christian religion which for centuries the Celtic peoples have professed.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Federal troops are necessary to carry out the decrees of a tribunal of arbitration, if that court is not to run a risk of being held feeble and ineffectual.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

His friend and admirer, Professor Wilson, states that all his poetry, published previously to the "Excursion," is but the "Religion of the Woods"; and that though in that poem there is a high religion brought forward, it is not the religion of Christianity.
— from Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love by Edmund Lee

He had found it necessary to remove the strap from the bag.
— from Local Color by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

The latter, in noticing the recent decision of Judge Cartter, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, denying to women the right to vote under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, says: [Pg 986] If the people of the United States, by amendment of their Constitution, could expunge, without any explanatory or assisting legislation, an adjective of five letters from all State and local constitutions, and thereby raise millions of our most ignorant fellow-citizens to all of the rights and privileges of electors, why should not the same people, by the same amendment, expunge an adjective of four letters from the same State and local constitutions, and thereby raise other millions of more educated and better informed citizens to equal rights and privileges, without explanatory or assisting legislation?
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

… It is necessary to remember that these opportunities are, nevertheless, vanishing; and if we are a sensible people we will make it our business to see that the process of extinction is arrested.
— from The Mentor: Game Animals of America, Vol. 4, Num. 13, Serial No. 113, August 15, 1916 by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

Sinner, where is now thy righteousness?
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

And here appears a little house with a sign, alone by itself, near the road, standing in the midst of the snow which covers it almost to the roof.
— from The Invaders, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When once a person knows the true origin of the doctrine of the Trinity—one which is far too improper to have been adopted by the writers of the New Testament—it is impossible not to recognise in the signs which are symbolic of it the thing which is signified.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

The "country" that the city speaks of — as if it had made some great and wonderful discovery — is not the real country at all, but a fake, a red herring meant to keep us from seeing the truth.
— from Down with the Cities! by Tadashi Nakashima

It is necessary to refer briefly again to the subject of trusts.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

He appealed for help to Schwarzenberg, who informed Napoleon that Reynier was too weak to resist Tormazov, who was estimated to be 40,000 strong, and that he must perforce turn back to his rescue from Nesvizh.
— from Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 by Edward (Edward A.) Foord