Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary."
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Unnecessary
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Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them."
Carl Andre
Artist
"Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"Theology is unnecessary."
Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary."
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"Poverty is unnecessary."
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"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves."
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"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
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"I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota."
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"When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive"
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"Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves"
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"The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future."
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"I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me."
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"My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work."
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"Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary."
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"Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow."
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"For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary"
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"...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary."
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"Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew."
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"You are quite unnecessary, young man!"
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"Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary."
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"Everybody starts with a clean slate only altered by unnecessary hate."
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"Art is elimination of the unnecessary."
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"What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?"
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"The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself."
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