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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

Live, Stress, Balance, Mind, Peaceful

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, Snow, Water, People, Find, Like

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. John Adams

War, Great, Guilt

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, Speak, May, Simplify

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, Value, Survival, Things

Disability is articulated as a struggle, an unnecessary burden that one must overcome to the soundtrack of a string crescendo. But disabled lives are multi-faceted - brimming with personality, pride, ambition, love, empathy, and wit. Sinead Burke

Love, Struggle, Personality, Empathy

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

Engineering, May, Always, Genetic, About

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, Word, Nothingness, Like, Every

I believe that as a part of good governance, all agencies should be reviewing regulations and cleaning up those that may be outdated, redundant, or unnecessary. Seth Moulton

Good, Believe, Cleaning, I Believe, May

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

Wisdom, War, Both Sides, Sides, Had

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

Freedom, Great, Simplicity, Care, Enough

Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels. Ahmed Zewail

Education, Achievement, Quality, Pride

The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in many situations. It is cruel, degrading, and inhumane and is effectively a 'no touch' torture. Chelsea Manning

Touch, Evidence, Cruel, Torture, Should

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

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. Mark Twain

Civilization, Limitless, Necessities

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

Respect, Prison, Opinion, Tyranny, Out

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

Time, Stress, People, Energy, Important

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. - Pablo Picasso

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. Pablo Picasso

Art, Elimination

The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence. Stephen Hough

Stars, Daily, Glitter, Skyscrapers

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well. Sebastian Junger

War, Job, Suffering, People, Gun, Battle

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

Yourself, School, Strong, You, Never, Go

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

Life, Time, Death, Retirement, Loss

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

Work, Together, Vision, Fire, People

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

Hope, Money, Advertising, You, Make

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.

Words, Writing, Drawing, Reason, Same

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there. Demetri Martin

Simplicity, I Am, Trying, Things, Out

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

Day, Mind, You, Know, I Can, Person

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