Unnecessary Quotes - Page 15

• 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 into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.

  Helen Clark

  Husband, Thinking, Peter

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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 things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

  Erykah Badu

  Mind, Reason, Heavy

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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 stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.

  Bob Beauprez

  Country, Safety, Growth

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• I got mouths to feed,
  Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.

  GZA

  Rap, Hip Hop, Beef

  Song: 4th Chamber, Album: Liquid Swords

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• 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 history... Our military men and women...were not called to defend America but rather to attack Iraq. They were not called to die for, but rather to kill for, their country. What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters...?

  William Sloane Coffin

  Daughter, Country, Military

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• 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 victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.

  David Harsanyi

  War, Victory, Ferguson

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• 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 of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Should Have, Desire

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.75, Regent College Publishing

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• 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 of making _less_ effort. It is the most economic attitude there is, because it saves us much energy that we might otherwise waste in suspicion, worry, resentment, manipulation, or unnecessary defense. It is an attitude that, by eliminating the inessential, brings us back to the simplicity of being.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Attitude, Kindness, Simple

  Piero Ferrucci (2007). “The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life”, p.26, Penguin

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• 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 cannot help you... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman.

  Miles Franklin

  Art, Women, Class

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.463, The Floating Press

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• Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Inspirational, Dance, Children

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• 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 are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Men, Order

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Library of Alexandria

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• Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Indulge In, Sophisticated

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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 what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?'

  David Cameron

  People, Rules And Regulations, Common

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". Bloomberg speech, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

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• In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

  John Conyers

  Powerful, Government, World

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• I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

  Derek Jeter

  New York, Distraction, Attributes

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• I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

  Enya

  Could Have Been, Has Beens, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 Clark

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.37, Wesleyan University Press

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• Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

  Jack Kemp

  Law, Effort, Degrees

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• To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary.  These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail.  This is a revolution!  And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.

  Che Guevara

  Hate, Men, Squad

  "The Cuban Revolution : Years of Promise". Book by Teo A. Babun and Victor Andres Triay, p. 57, 2005.

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• When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord.

  Nate Saint

  Weight, Flight, Lord

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• Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

  Kesha

  Animal, Realizing, Testing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Soul

  William Law (1726). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection”, p.42

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• Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.

  Horatio Dresser

  Self, Quiet, Habit

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• Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

  Nas

  Men, America, Violence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

  James Lovelock

  Engineering, Worry, Mutation

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