"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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"When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives."
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"On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary."
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"The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
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"I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way."
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"After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?"
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"I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary."
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"Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!"
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"All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us."
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"... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings."
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"No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one."
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"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier."
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"Science makes God unnecessary."
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"A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women."
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"But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself."
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"A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow."
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