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• The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Art, Feelings

  Sharon Salzberg (1999). “A Heart as Wide as the World”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

  Evan Esar

  Wise, Wisdom, Wise Words

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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.

  Anne Katherine

  Life, Distraction, Obligation

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• Science makes God unnecessary.

  Stephen Hawking

  "Stephen Hawking: 'Science Makes God Unnecessary'". Interview with Nick Watt, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2010.

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• If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

  David Eller

  Religion, Atheism, Belief

  David Eller (2007). “Atheism Advanced: Further Thoughts of a Freethinker”

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• Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mind, Unnecessary Things, Clean

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• True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Happiness, Letting Go, Born

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 20, 2012

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• Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

  John Adams

  Peace, War, History

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.474

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• Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Exclusion, Art Is

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• Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.

  Tommy Ramone

  Focus, Substance

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• Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is.

  Duane Elgin

  Mean, Simplicity, Faces

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• If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

  Winston Churchill

  Team, Two, People

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• If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

  Wumen Huikai

  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

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• A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Powerful, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.309, Library of America

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• When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Commitment, Power, Politics

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• Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Baptism, Stubborn

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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.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Giving, Alarms, Imagine

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “The Scarlet letter”

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• Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sunshine, Joy, Sorrow

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• Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Realizing, True Freedom

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.118, New World Library

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• Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that must be solved. "Morbid obesity" is in many ways saying we are the walking dead. Or walking to our death. And that is no way to live, with that sort of moniker hanging over your head at all times. I think it forces fat people to internalize a lot of unnecessary self-loathing.

  Roxane Gay

  Thinking, People, Walking Dead

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them. So, they're what the classical economist called empty pricing. Prices with no real cost value. What they called rent and fictitious capital. Capital claims on junk mortgage borrowers. The pretense is that all these debts can be paid but it's all fictitious, because everybody knows - at least on Wall Street everybody knows - that many debts can't be paid.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, Real, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Challenges, World

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• Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Communication, Two, People

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. It’s like being in a trance - it’s a fluid - and you almost don’t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Mistake, Moving, Hands

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• Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.

  Margaret Drabble

  Mother, Memories, Home

  Margaret Drabble (2010). “The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws”, p.329, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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