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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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• A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Should, Concentration

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• Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Keys

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.165, Knopf

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• We must build a world free of unnecessary barriers, stereotypes, and discrimination. ... policies must be developed, attitudes must be shaped, and buildings and organizations must be designed to ensure that everyone has a chance to get the education they need and live independently as full citizens in their communities.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Organization, Community

  "Obama Statement in Support of World Autism Awareness Day and Awareness Month". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. April 2, 2008.

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• Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

  Harold Laski

  Pain, Mean, Men

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• The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

  Isaac Asimov

  Block, Essentials, Impossible

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• The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.

  Terence McKenna

  Simple, Deep Water, Suffering

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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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• If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

  Aristotle

  Moving, Atheism, Would Be

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• The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reality, Goal, World

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.69, Soft Skull Press

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• One of the problems that we have in the human rights community is that special interests often forget the interests of other victims, and there's competition among victims expressions that are unnecessary.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Rights, Expression, Community

  "Un Expert on Democracy Highlights Importance of Free Expression, Information". news.un.org. October 28, 2013.

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• There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.

  RZA

  Wise, Fall, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I think there's a lot of unnecessary bullshit on the Internet. You can drown in it.

  Sky Ferreira

  Thinking, Bullshit, Internet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in our private lives, at work or in government - we might experience a leap in prosperity. We need no extra cunning, no new ideas, no unnecessary gadgets, no frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less irrationality.

  Rolf Dobelli

  Simple, Thinking, Errors

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• I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

  Walton Goggins

  School, Light, People

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• There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Modern Journalism, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.393, University of Chicago Press

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• I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Risk, Worth Living

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• Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

  Daniel Dennett

  Atheism, Term, Rounds

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• Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Successful, Said, Precaution

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• Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'

  Stewart Udall

  Running, Moving, Sacrifice

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• A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.

  Peter Shepherd

  Integrity, Sacrifice, People

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• Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Real, People

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• For the Christian church.... to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Christian, Cutting, Reality

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