It's a necessity of life in America today.

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Art is a necessity of life.

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When did you last hear a CEO speak credibly about the value of distractions, the necessity of failure, and of the finitude of life as a reminder to live it fully, as we did at the legendary 2005 Stanford commencement speech?

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But some young workers may be turning towards a staid financial life out of necessity.

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The search for profit, they argue, may be a regrettable necessity in the modern world, a sad fact of life if there is to be any private enterprise.

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David tried to imagine how it would feel to sleep and wake when you wanted to, to choose your life without thinking of anybody else, not to be broken into the hard frame of adult necessity.

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In other cases, there are compelling reasons for women to endure the work-life challenges their companies pose, such as economic necessity, the inability to do a particular job outside of big institutions or because of the need to gain experience and credentials.

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