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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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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
Hands
,
Belong
,
Our
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
Friendship
,
Art
,
Give
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
Communication
,
May
,
Means
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner
Nature
,
Lot
,
Freezing
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
Silence
,
Like
,
Every
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
War
,
Been
,
Both Sides
Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
Jef I. Richards
Money
,
Advertising
,
Unless
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
Strong
,
Always
,
Through
It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.
Che Guevara
Triumph
,
Statesman
,
Castro
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams
Great
,
War
,
Guilt
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain
Civilization
,
Necessities
What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed... but on cooperation... where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.
Bernie Sanders
Production
,
Hire
,
Other
No officer wants to be involved in a justified use of force proven unnecessary after the fact, any more than soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan wanted to make what proved to be the wrong decision in a shoot-don't-shoot situation. Those decisions, even if justified, live with you forever, believe me.
Tom Cotton
Fact
,
Use
,
Officer
Theology is unnecessary.
Stephen Hawking
Theology
As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never be worth your time and energy - and they take a lot of each. Toxic people create unnecessary complexity, strife, and, worst of all, stress.
Travis Bradberry
Deal
,
Complexity
,
Strife
All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.
Tom Hodgkinson
Happy
,
Happy Life
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
Art
,
Elimination
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
Tyranny
,
Goes
,
Necessary
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Fred Allen
Committee
,
Appointed
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
Doing
,
Reward
,
Think
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
Richard Baxter
Unity
,
Liberty
,
Necessary
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
Reason
,
Through
,
Some
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
James Lovelock
May
,
Always
,
Genetic
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
Complexity
,
Waste
,
Dealing
I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.
Mitch Hedberg
Very
,
Saw
,
Once
Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.
Kesha
More
,
Been
,
Cruel
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