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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

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

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann

Communication, May, Means

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

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

It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need. Elaine Chao

Death, Insurance, Been

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react. Nicola Adams

Choose, React, Loads

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. - John Adams

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. John Adams

Great, War, Guilt

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

Complexity, Deal, Strife

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money. Jef I. Richards

Money, Advertising, Unless

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. William Strunk, Jr.

Reason, Sentence, Paragraph

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary. Said Nursi

Paradise, Shown, Neither

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.

Reason, Sentence, Paragraph

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. - Samuel Beckett

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, Both Sides, Been

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. - Mark Twain

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. Mark Twain

Civilization, Necessities

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. - Pablo Picasso

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. Pablo Picasso

Art, Elimination

Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible. Steve Nash

Very, Which, Impatient

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. - Mitch Hedberg

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. Mitch Hedberg

Very, Once, Saw

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life. Tom Hodgkinson

Happy, Happy Life

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. James Lovelock

Always, May, Genetic

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. - Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner

Nature, Freezing, Lot

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. Samuel Johnson

Pain, Will, Away

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

Think, Doing, Reward

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

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

Living, Happiest, Them

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