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• The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead animal in it. ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary.

  Stella McCartney

  Animal, Shoes, Rubber

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• The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Deterioration, Gone, Before Marriage

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• Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

  Philippe Starck

  "Philippe Starck and "design is dead"". DIE ZEIT Intreview, www.cnet.com. April 8, 2008.

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• At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration.

  Svante Arrhenius

  Men, Sight, Firsts

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• By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Race, Brain

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.39, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.

  John Woolman

  Love, Father, May

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• Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and experience as to how these unnecessary deaths can be avoided. In the meantime.. to prevent your offspring from becoming a SIDS statistic just make sure that its daily intake of ascorbate from conception on is sufficient. Under this regime the neonate is so robust and healthy that there has never been a case of SIDS among these ascorbate corrected infants, not even a case of respiratory distress during birth.

  Irwin Stone

  Medicine, Long, Healthy

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• If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Men, Care

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.35, Penguin

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• There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one.

  Peter London

  Wise, Art, Mean

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance.

  Mark Klett

  Giving, Antiques, Drawers

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• The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Government, Needs, Force

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• If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Stupid, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Sex, Agony

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• Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

  Cordelia Fine

  Loser, Computer, Stereotype

  Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.46, Icon Books Ltd

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• Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's no doubt that if you eliminated all unnecessary surgery, most surgeons would go out of business. They'd have to look for honest work, because the surgeon gets paid when he performs surgery on you, not when you're treated some other way. In pre-paid group practices where surgeons are paid a steady salary not tied to how many operations they perform, hysterectomies and tonsillectomies occur only about one-third as often as in fee-for-service situations.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Thinking, Practice, Play

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• Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. … We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.

  Bryan Fischer

  Husband, Father, People

  "New reality: You are what you tweet" by Jennifer Martinez, www.politico.com. May 05, 2011.

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• Time is running out fast.  I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.

  Willem Buiter

  Running, Country, Thinking

  "New Italy PM fails to calm financial markets". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. November 17, 2011.

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• Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

  Epicurus

  Blessed, Thanks, Easy

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• Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

  Florence Nightingale

  Sick, Abuse, Care

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• When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

  Ernest Bramah

  Book, Thunderbolts, Omen

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “The Wallet of Kai Lung”, p.15, Ernest Bramah

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• Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.

  Widad Akrawi

  Creativity, Justice, Growth

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• To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.

  Widad Akrawi

  Achieve, Process, Bureaucracy

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• Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.

  P. M. Forni

  Hurt, Might, Causes

  P. M. Forni (2010). “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their faith or their sexuality. It’s a pointless exercise that can never be anything but acrimonious and will only highlight unnecessary amounts of difference about things that ultimately don’t really matter. Buy the steak you like, worship the god you love, neck with the people that you treasure and don’t worry about the numbers.

  Merlin Mann

  Exercise, Differences, Numbers

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• I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The super idea is fairly important in the classical pattern, but it appears to be unnecessary in the prototypal and functional patterns. I now see my early attempts to support the classical model in JavaScript as a mistake.

  Douglas Crockford

  Mistake, Writing, Ideas

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