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• Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  War, Selfishness, Obsolete

  "Why I/We Celebrate Buckminster Fuller’s Birthday (July 12, 1895) Every Year" by L. Steven Sieden, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2015.

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

  Emile Durkheim

  Law, Moral, Insufficient

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• Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Thinking, Lds

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• I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Independent, Way In Life, Leaving

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• The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.

  C. Lloyd Morgan

  Purpose, Useless, Consciousness

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• Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Knowing, Evil

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.907, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

  Donald A. Norman

  Everyday Things, Design, Unnecessary Things

  Donald A. Norman (2013). “The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.183, Basic Books

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• When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Simple, Men, Ak 47

  "Kalashnikov, 90, decries 'criminal' use of rifle" by Dmitry Solovyov and Michael Roddy, www.reuters.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

  William Feather

  Play, Hustle, Action

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• It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

  Addison Mizner

  Simple, Cities, Florida

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• We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.

  Melissa Bean

  Stress, Community, Proud

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• Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

  Peter Saville

  Design, Consumption

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• When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Dog, House

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• Do you want to increase your hunger for the Lord? Try weaning yourself from the world's diet- be prepared for some withdrawal symptoms when you turn off the radio and the TV and eliminate unnecessary activities. Then begin feeding on the Word of God. At first, it may seem bland and boring; but in time, you will discover that it satisfies in a far deeper, richer way than those things you once thought were so filling.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Trying, May, Want

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2009). “A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life”, p.130, Moody Publishers

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• I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Sophisticated

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• While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Grief

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.38, Penguin

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