“ We've had these 55 accidents and they are preventable and they shouldn't be happening. ”
- John Clark- Copy
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“ A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ Vigorous writing is concise. 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. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. ”
- William Strunk Jr.- Copy
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“ There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily. ”
- J. Carter Brown- Copy
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“ Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. ”
- Fred Woodworth- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany. ”
- Thomas Kretschmann- Copy
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“ What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ”
- Richard Harkness- Copy
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“ Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary. ”
- Kent Conrad- Copy
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“ There's no way to spin it: Allowing women to get shot to death, or blown up, or mutilated and disfigured in war-particularly in a voluntary war-is horrible. It's unnecessary. It's barbaric. ”
- Tucker Carlson- Copy
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“ Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings. ”
- Kenneth B. Clark- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. ”
- Nyogen Senzakill- Copy
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“ Things that are done, it is needless to speak about…things that are past, it is needless to blame. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ It is needless to enter into many reasons for quashing the conviction, when one alone is sufficient. ”
- Lord Mansfield- Copy
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“ There's one capability that is essential to dealing with all of these threats and, needless to say, that's intelligence. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
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“ We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you…and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit. ”
- Talmud- Copy
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“ Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. ”
- Edwin Way Teale- Copy
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“ The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
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“ Men weren't really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. ”
- ry than any known disease.- Copy
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“ When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ”
- William Wrigley Jr.- Copy
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“ Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. ”
- Dorothy C. Fisher- Copy
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“ Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. ”
- Maurice Baring- Copy
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