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It's the millenium, motives are incidental. -- Jamie Kennedy
Justice is merely incidental to law and order. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Money is the outcome of my work and is incidental. -- Dilip Shanghvi
I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes. -- Herb Kelleher
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something. -- Whittaker Chambers
Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food. -- Peace Pilgrim
I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental. -- Ashwin Sanghi
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. -- Edward Sapir
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour. -- Patrick Kavanagh
My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself. -- Charlie Pierce
Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental. -- Simon Sinek
Nothing is incidental. -- Pocan Ioan Valentin
Leave your incidental Dick. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Justice is incidental to law and order. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature. -- Anton Chekhov
There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life. -- Sax Rohmer
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. -- Lydia M. Child
Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital. -- Nachman of Breslov
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself. -- Stephen Metcalf
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it -- Henry Mintzberg
Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action? -- Haruki Murakami
Relationships between men and women are only about sex. The rest of the sh*t is incidental. -- Chad Kultgen
Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness. -- Boyd K. Packer
Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem. -- Jodie Foster
Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself. -- Alain de Botton
I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money. -- Roger Corman
I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination. -- Karen Lord
Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. -- Oscar W. Firkins
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. -- H. G. Wells
The artist's aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist. -- Sol LeWitt
After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores. -- Paul Wardingham
As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me. -- William Baziotes
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding. -- George Santayana
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I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity. -- William James
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages. -- Benjamin Disraeli
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology. -- Pope Benedict XVI
With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act. -- John Henry Holland
Justice is merely incidental to law and order. Law and order is what covers the whole picture. Justice is part of it, but it can't be separated as a single thing. -- J. Edgar Hoover
What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape. -- Rachel Zoe
The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories. -- Teri Hatcher

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