Unnecessary Quotes
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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.
Oscar Wilde
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar Wilde
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
T. E. Lawrence
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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.
Stephen Covey
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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.
William Strunk, Jr.
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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
Carl Andre
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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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Evan Wright
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These precautions, perhaps because they had been taken, proved unnecessary.
Avram Davidson
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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.
Erykah Badu
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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.
Sean Pertwee
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If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.
Aristotle
