Unnecessary Quotes - Page 13

• Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

  Epicurus

  Blessed, Thanks, Easy

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• Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

  Florence Nightingale

  Sick, Abuse, Care

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• When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

  Ernest Bramah

  Book, Thunderbolts, Omen

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “The Wallet of Kai Lung”, p.15, Ernest Bramah

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• Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.

  Widad Akrawi

  Creativity, Justice, Growth

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• To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.

  Widad Akrawi

  Achieve, Process, Bureaucracy

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• Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.

  P. M. Forni

  Hurt, Might, Causes

  P. M. Forni (2010). “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Three, Egomaniacs

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Technology, Management and Society”, p.91, Routledge

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• When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

  Emile Durkheim

  Law, Moral, Insufficient

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• Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Happiness, Luxury, Justice

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sports, War, Distance

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Order, Holocaust

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• We should know why paternalism, collectivism, or unnecessary federal supervision will hold our standard of living down and reduce productivity just as it has in every country where it has been tried. We should also know why the communist leaders consider socialism the highroad to communism.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Communist Leaders, Down And

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.

  Francois Fenelon

  Reflection, Simplicity, Grace

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• Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, People, Liberty

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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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• Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Commitment, Risk

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• When you find a man who knows his job and is willing to take responsibility, keep out of his way and don't bother him with unnecessary supervision. What you may think is cooperation is nothing but interference.

  Thomas Dreier

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Truth, Issues, People

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• Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build a safe, clean and green energy supply for the nation, we face unnecessary shortages. But there is still a chance to put the proceeds from liquidating our fossil fuel assets to better and more appropriate use. Instead of oil companies profiteering from climate change and oil depletion, a windfall tax could establish an Oil Legacy Fund to pay for Britain's urgent transition to a sustainable, decentralised energy system

  Andrew Simms

  Oil, Sea, Pay

  "Fund clean energy with oil tax" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2006.

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• There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Our World, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Dear 2600: ...So, in the interest of information gathering and because I am a subscriber, are you going to be checking me out? This would be unnecessary since we checked you out before you subscribed. That's why we made sure you heard about us and followed the plan by subscribing. Writing this letter, however, was not part of the plan and we will be taking corrective action.

  Eric Corley

  Writing, Letters, Information

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• A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Challenges, World

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• Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Communication, Two, People

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Film, Mines

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• Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.

  Margaret Drabble

  Mother, Memories, Home

  Margaret Drabble (2010). “The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws”, p.329, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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