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• What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

  Robert Fripp

  Want, Unlikely, Expensive

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• Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things - unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Dog, Heart

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• It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.

  Alexander Lowen

  Children, Pain, People

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• Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

  Nas

  Men, America, Violence

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

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• But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

  George Eliot

  Ambition, Long, Miracle

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

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• I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

  Geri Halliwell

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Girl, Mean, Kids

  "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.

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• I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Jobs, Memories, Block

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.

  Steve Nash

  Needs, Impossible, Sometimes

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• Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Roles, Uncertain

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

  Demetri Martin

  Ideas, Simplicity, Trying

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

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• Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Clothes, People, Feelings

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

  James Lovelock

  Engineering, Worry, Mutation

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• I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

  Jane Smiley

  War, Thinking, Pieces

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• Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Passive Voice, Use, Splits

  "Sotomayoralities" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2009.

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• You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on down tried to circumvent what was supposed to be – which ultimately was the destruction of the Atlantean pantheon. There was no changing that prophecy. But the way you suffered was completely unnecessary. Had your parents embraced their true destiny, you would have been saved years of torment. Fate will not be denied. We can sculpt it, but in the end we’re all pawns to our final destinies. Good, bad, or indifferent. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fate, Destiny, Years

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• Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And what about you?" This time, it was Callie who spoke, her own pent-up energy releasing in anger, and the men turned as one to look at her, surprised that she and found her voice. "What about you and your idiotic pland to somehow restore my honor by playing guns out in the middle of nowhere with OXFORD?" She said the baron's name in disdain. "Like children? Of all the ridiculous, unnecessary, thoughtless, MALE things to do...who even FIGHTS duels anymore?!

  Sarah MacLean

  Brother, Children, Fighting

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• And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fate, Perfect, Miracle

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• The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.

  Tom Robbins

  Buddhist, Thinking, Desire

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.129, Bantam

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• Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Soul

  William Law (1726). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection”, p.42

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• Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

  Umberto Eco

  School, Irrelevance, Numbers

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating their depth with unnecessary shudders. … The whole point of crying is to quit before you coined it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted

  Richard Yates

  Grief, Cutting, Trying

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• Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Religious, Opposites, Faithful

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.73, FastPencil Inc

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• When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

  Emile Durkheim

  Law, Sufficient, Lawyer

  Attributed to Emile Durkheim in "Readings in Renewing American Civilization" edited by Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Albert Stephen Hanser (p. 54), 1993.

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• Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*

  William Shakespeare

  Cheer, Wall, Giving

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