Unnecessary Quotes
518 quotes by 441 authors
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an…
— Mary Astell
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And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many…
— Erykah Badu
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
— John Adams
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As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations…
— Bob Beauprez
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
— Samuel Beckett
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when…
— Edward de Bono
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People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by…
— David Cameron
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I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was…
— Jimmy Carter
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A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
— Fred Allen
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Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to…
— John Hospers
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The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where…
— Kato Kiyomasa
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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,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.
— Winston Churchill
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Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize…
— Rajneesh
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The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary…
— Sigmund Freud
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Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
— Richard Baxter
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We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law…
— Robert Breault
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