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• One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

  Kage Baker

  School, Taught Us, Unhappiness

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.244, Macmillan

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• If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

  Charles II of England

  Useless, Understood, Ifs

  "Hudibras" by Samuel Butler, edited by Henry George Bohn, (Part 1, Canto 1), 1859.

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• I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.

  Helen Clark

  Husband, Thinking, Peter

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• Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.

  David Harsanyi

  War, Victory, Ferguson

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• I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Men, Class

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

  Benjamin Rush

  House, Bipolar, Extravagance

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• ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Men, Order

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Library of Alexandria

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• The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Evil, Anarchy, States

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.232, Shambhala Publications

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• It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

  Peter Elbow

  Thinking, Worry, Trying

  Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Struggle, Loss

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.134, PublicAffairs

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• The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand and eye and judgment are as much a part of his armament as his machinegun, and a fiftyfifty chance is the worst he will take or should take except where the show is of the kind that . . . justifies the sacrifice of plane or pilot.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Eye, Fighting, Sacrifice

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• In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

  John Conyers

  Powerful, Government, World

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• I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

  Derek Jeter

  New York, Distraction, Attributes

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• I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

  Enya

  Could Have Been, Has Beens, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. It’s like being in a trance - it’s a fluid - and you almost don’t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Mistake, Moving, Hands

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• To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary.  These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail.  This is a revolution!  And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.

  Che Guevara

  Hate, Men, Squad

  "The Cuban Revolution : Years of Promise". Book by Teo A. Babun and Victor Andres Triay, p. 57, 2005.

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• When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord.

  Nate Saint

  Weight, Flight, Lord

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• Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.

  Horatio Dresser

  Self, Quiet, Habit

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• There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

  James Berardinelli

  Night, Men, Cable Tv

  "The November Man (United States, 2014)". A movie review by James Berardinelli, www.reelviews.net. August 29, 2014.

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• The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Weakness, Body, Divinity

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• The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

  Sun Tzu

  Knowledge, Conflict, Strategy

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

  Benjamin Graham

  Essence, Safety, Function

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country where it is unnecessary to have a past, what is a luxury for the nation as a whole becomes a prime social necessity for the Negro. For him, a group tradition must supply compensation for persecution, and pride of race the antidote for prejudice. History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset.

  Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

  Country, Pride, Past

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• If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mean, Son, Life And Death

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