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I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary — David Byrne
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise… — Sinclair Lewis
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness. — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I… — Miles Franklin
Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness is a way… — Piero Ferrucci
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings. — Kenneth Clarke
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American… — William Sloane Coffin
After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary. — William J. Brennan
Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses. — Richard Branson
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary — Maimonides
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it… — Pope Francis
I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was… — Assata Shakur
When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated.… — Paul Brunton
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life. — Wumen Huikai
One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school. — Kage Baker
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless. — Charles I of England
I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going… — Helen Clark
Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic… — David Harsanyi
I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour… — Albert Einstein
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture. — Benjamin Rush
ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and… — Emma Goldman
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary. — Benjamin Tucker
People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss… — Marie-Louise von Franz
It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words. — Peter Elbow

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