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• Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Action, Should

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

  Bernie Sanders

  Police, Limits, Use

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• I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Sake, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

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• A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Useless, Language, Taxes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

  Tony Buzan

  Successful, Effort, Intensity

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• It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?

  Niki Lauda

  People, Risk, Life Is Like

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

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• The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Struggle, Class, Want

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• I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.

  Jack White

  Littles, Whole Life, Seems

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• Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

  April Gornik

  Real, Fighting, Animal

  "Our Real Wealth" by April Gornik, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

  Pearl S. Buck

  World, Hunger, Shame

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

  Scott McClellan

  War, Mistake, Graves

  Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.13, PublicAffairs

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• What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

  Sam Keen

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

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• No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

  Sebastian Junger

  Jobs, War, Gun

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• I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying 'no' politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Thinking, Want, Able

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

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• I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

  Eric Bana

  Race, People, Track

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• I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

  Chris Patten

  Intellectual, Baggage, Britain

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• One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Soldier, My Favorite

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• To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Miracle, Serious, Wonder

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• The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.

  Melville Fuller

  Two, Views, Law

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• Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved trait characteristic of our species, as the standard narrative insists, these ubiquitous transgressions would be infrequent and such horrible enforcement unnecessary. No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature.

  Christopher Ryan

  Running, Careers, Presidential

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• Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

  Source: home.online.nl

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• Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Country, Goal, Priorities

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.

  William Shockley

  Regret, Thinking, Think Before You Act

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• I went to the Home Depot, which was unnecessary. I need to go to the Apartment Depot. Which is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying "We don't have to fix anything."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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