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Health Insurers' Bottom Line Defines 'Medical Necessity' 2009
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What is really in contradiction to consciousness, they would, I think, on strict self-examination, find to be, the application to human actions and volitions of the ideas involved in the common use of the term Necessity; which I agree with them in objecting to.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839
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What is really in contradiction to consciousness, they would, I think, on strict self-examination, find to be, the application to human actions and volitions of the ideas involved in the common use of the term Necessity; which I agree with them in objecting to.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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Necessity is the root which you try to pass, but it is a LIE.
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Necessity is the mother of invention, yes, but plenty of humans have died while desperately waiting for a technological solution to their problems.
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Necessity is the mother of invention, and fan films are always examples of just that, but the absurdity is just too damn funny.
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William Pitt ` Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
Archive 2007-04-22 Newmania 2007
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Kripke's Naming and Necessity is the essential guide in these matters.
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* While there may be an art to unpacking, Necessity is no poet and one mustn't wait for inspiration to strike from the French heavens when six hungry campers are crying to be fed.
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Necessity is the mother of bass fishing invention.
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