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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. -- Peace Pilgrim
Poverty is unnecessary. -- Muhammad Yunus
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. -- Peace Pilgrim
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. -- C. S. Lewis
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. -- Bertrand Russell
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good. -- Rachel Cusk
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. -- Pablo Picasso
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. -- Carl Reiner
Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary. -- Eckhart Tolle
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. -- Ezra Pound
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. -- Oscar Wilde
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. -- William Strunk, Jr.
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. -- Duke of Wellington
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Lessen the quantity of unnecessary thoughts and allow more space for the energy of love to flow within you. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself. -- Natalie Portman
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. -- Jimmy Carter
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. -- Leo Tolstoy
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves. -- Henry L. Stimson
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.
We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home. -- Sharon Salzberg
Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America. -- Wilfrid Sheed
Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace. -- Widad Akrawi
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all. -- Richard Baxter
I got mouths to feed, Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed. -- GZA
your Life is cover by only one word 'IS', everything else is Just Unnecessary Happening By Your Mind. -- Sushil Singh
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well. -- Florence Nightingale
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost. -- William Feather
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. -- Winston Churchill
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. -- Winston Churchill
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. -- John Adams
Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. -- Margaret Mead
I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. -- Mitch Hedberg
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money. -- Thomas Hobbes
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. -- Samuel Beckett
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. -- Arthur Wellesley
Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible. -- Steve Nash
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks. -- Chris Bell
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. -- Robert E. Lee
I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Fitting in is unnecessary. Embrace who you are. You will go through rough times in high school, but always stay strong, and never deny yourself! -- Neon Hitch
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. -- Anthony Trollope
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. -- Edward de Bono
People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero. -- Sarah Palin
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. -- William Law
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
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?' -- Major Owens
Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress. -- Melody Beattie
What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of the suffering. -- Paul Farmer
People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?' -- David Cameron
Theology is unnecessary. -- Stephen Hawking
Science makes god unnecessary. -- Stephen Hawking
Government is an unnecessary evil. -- Jeff Berwick
Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses. -- Richard Branson
Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary. -- Oscar Wilde
Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary. -- Rodney Harrison
You are quite unnecessary, young man! -- Antonin Artaud
Art is elimination of the unnecessary. -- Waldo Salt
Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! -- William Shakespeare
Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars. -- Jimmy Carter
Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary, -- Philippe Starck
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary. -- Kate Mulgrew
Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary. -- Julian Barnes
Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act. -- William Shockley
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary. -- Peter Sellers
Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary. -- Carl Andre
Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption. -- Peter Saville
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Mark Twain
Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle. -- Jane McGonigal
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance. -- Tommy Ramone
Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake. -- Scott McClellan
A word to the wise is -- unnecessary. -- Evan Esar
For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary -- Diana Gabaldon
If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary. -- Henry Ford
The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary. -- Evan Wright
My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work. -- Prince Philip
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary. -- Pablo Picasso
I try to keep myself out of the unnecessary bullshit. -- Rakim
I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated. -- Brian P. Cleary
Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary. -- David Suzuki
Politics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated. -- Jonas Jonasson
Everybody starts with a clean slate only altered by unnecessary hate. -- Melanie Chisholm
Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong. -- Buzz Bissinger
All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life. -- Tom Hodgkinson
A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary. -- Donald A. Norman
If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary. -- Winston Churchill
Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist. -- Randy Sanders
True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary. -- Sharon Salzberg
Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary. -- Alan Greenspan
Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped. -- Mahathir Mohamad
I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity. -- Luke Evans
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary. -- Benjamin Jowett
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary -- Maimonides
The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary. -- Sun Tzu
I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky. -- Sasha Grey
One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier. -- Thomas Jefferson
I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility. -- Benjamin Disraeli
It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work. -- Andrew Lakey
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. -- Aristotle
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary -- Richard Baxter
Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism... -- Daniel Dennett
On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary. -- Scott Adams
My phone just auto-corrected my name to "Jamie unnecessary," instead of Jamie Lynn. -- Jamie Lynn Sigler
Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary. -- Gregory Skovoroda
Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice. -- Sheryl Sandberg
I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory. -- Stephenie Meyer
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. -- Honore de Balzac
I think meaning is something that's really unnecessary in music, at least for me. -- Tim Rutili
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. -- Emile Durkheim
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. -- Jane Smiley
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself. -- Francois Fenelon
I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense. -- Randeep Hooda
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. -- Emile Durkheim

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