Unnecessary Quotes
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference.
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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
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Art is elimination of the unnecessary.
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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.
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It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
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Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.
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The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
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I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.
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Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!
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I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.
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These precautions, perhaps because they had been taken, proved unnecessary.
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If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.
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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.
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Once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.
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The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.
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Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
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A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
