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• I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

  Edward Abbey

  Death, Believe, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Memorable, Guitar, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

  David Suzuki

  Bags, Plastic, Plastic Bags

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• I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.

  Edward Hallowell

  Stress, Excellence, Suffering

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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 adoration of ‘art’ today.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Care, Want

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• It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  War, Technology, Selfishness

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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• After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

  William J. Brennan

  Political, Liberty, United States

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• Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Survival, Expenses

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• While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

  Chinua Achebe

  Real, Lying, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Dec 17, 2011

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• Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Reality, Cameras

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• When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.

  Nyogen Senzaki

  Running, Spiritual, Worry

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• If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.

  Haskell Wexler

  Thinking, Unhealthy, Products

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 201.

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• What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

  Matt Taibbi

  Crazy, Cynical, Effort

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• People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

  Sarah Palin

  Zero, People, Religion

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 09, 2010.

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• People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Beautiful, People, Car

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• The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

  Andy Rooney

  Music, Careers, Air

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.264, Random House

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• One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Needs, Physics

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

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• We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Memories, Leica

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• The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It's refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary bells and whistles. Raw and powerful.

  Ben Weinman

  Powerful, Play, Monsters

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• Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

  Helen Rowland

  Husband, Wrinkles, Disposition

  Helen Rowland (2017). “The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon”, p.8, Litres

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• Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Tools, Use

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• The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given.

  Paul Dirac

  Theoretical Physics, Mechanic, Given

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• It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.

  Robert Owen

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

  Robert Owen (1837). “First American from the third London edition”, p.76

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• There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from our tight hinges, deprived of any other chance in life to swing open into unnecessary risk and thus into enchantment.

  Tom Robbins

  Destiny, Swings, Doors

  "Continental Drifting With Tom Robbins" by Mary Eisenhart, www.sfgate.com. July 23, 2000.

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• Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary.

  Rodney Harrison

  Sometimes, Roughness

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