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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts.… — Confucius
The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life: who will proclaim, celebrate and serve the Gospel of life in every situation.… — Pope John Paul II
We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking… — Vera Wang
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution… — James Madison
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only… — Alexander Hamilton
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of,… — Thomas Paine
True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary. — Sharon Salzberg
It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so… — Marcus Garvey
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary… — Sean Bean
Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves — Bruce Lee
I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary… — Marcel Duchamp
A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time. — Judd Nelson
I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary. — Peter Sellers
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of… — Bea Arthur
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary. — Kate Mulgrew
A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary. — Unknown Author
The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is.… — Barbara Brown Taylor
Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All… — Amitava Kumar
We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not… — Gary Snyder
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague… — George Orwell
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you… — Arthur Miller
I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take… — Margery Allingham
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion…You must… — Richard Baxter

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