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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., Elements of Style
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"Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases." »American Heart Association Cookbook
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"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain." »Rambler
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"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." »Dorothy C. Fisher
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"A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary." »Dorothy Fisher
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"It is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable. Our errors of opinion, our cowardly fear of the world?s worthless censure, and our eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue, and made it far more difficult than, in itself, it is." »Feltham
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"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary." »William Jr. Wrigley
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"Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way." »Julius K. Nyerere
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"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." »Thomas Carruthers
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"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries." »Mark Twain
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"Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation." »Gail Sheehy
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"Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any." »Arthur Wellesley
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"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." »Beckett
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"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities." »Mark Twain
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"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." »Carl Reiner
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." »Hans Hofmann
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"What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." »Richard Harkness
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"Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary." »Maurice Baring
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"I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota." »Fran Lebowitz
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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
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"Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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"When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways." »Bertrand Russell
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"My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*." »Theodore Hesburgh
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival." »C. S. Lewis
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"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
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"If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple." »R. Brokhoff
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"Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll." »Billy Madison
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"Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis." »Abraham Myerson
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