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• If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Political, Would Be, Politics

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• In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should be excised, as a growth, unnecessary, should be excised.

  Eli Siegel

  Cutting, Order, Understanding

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• My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

  Prince Philip

  School, Favourite, Avoiding

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• It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.

  Paul Bowles

  Thinking, People, Ego

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• While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Anxiety, Finishing, Sincerity

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• You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.

  John F. Carlson

  Tree, Understanding, Growth

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.

  Robert Toombs

  War, Ocean, Mountain

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• The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

  Evan Wright

  Incompetent, Unwilling

  Evan Wright (2005). “Generation Kill”, p.23, Penguin

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• Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

  Kent Conrad

  Agreement, Recipes, Sugar

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• I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.

  Randeep Hooda

  People, Waiting, Expenses

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• Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Short Life, America, Customs

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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• How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring self keeps asking for more food, pounds of unnecessary problems are added to your life.

  Ruben Papian

  Self, Recipes, Pounds

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.26

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• Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Pain, Teach, Politeness

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Modern Griselda. Moral tales. 1825”, p.83

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• Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.

  Louis Pasteur

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" on April 07, 1864. "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, p. 140, archive.org. 1902.

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• There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.

  Allan Bloom

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Two

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 18, 1990.

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• Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Thinking, Church

  1878 An Inland Voyage,'At Maubeuge'.

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• True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.

  Herman Melville

  Work, Humanity, Wicked

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.464, Northwestern University Press

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• No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Pain, Reality, Roots

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• For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Dragons, Challenges

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.

  William James

  Lying, Character, Men

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.83, 谷月社

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• Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.

  Isaac Asimov

  Curves, Long, Juice

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.19, Spectra

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• I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Loss, Enough, Civilians

  "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1995.

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• The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

  Alan Watts

  Giving, Community, Trying

  "Psychotherapy, East and West" by Alan Watts, (p. 7), 1961.

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• To have "It", the fortunate possessor must have that strange magnetism which attracts both sexes. He or she must be entirely unselfconscious and full of self-confidence, indifferent to the effect he or she is producing, and uninfluenced by others. There must be physical attraction, but beauty is unnecessary.

  Elinor Glyn

  Sex, Self Confidence, Strange

  "It, and Other Stories (". Book by Elinor Glyn, 1927.

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• But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Character, Force, Capitalism

  John Desmond Bernal (1952). “Marx and science”

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