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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, Freezing

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. John Adams

Great, War, Guilt

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, Hands, Go

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, Ability, 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, Like

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that as a part of good governance, all agencies should be reviewing regulations and cleaning up those that may be outdated, redundant, or unnecessary.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

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

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, Battle, Gun

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, Been

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

Hope, Money, Advertising, You, Make

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, Vision, Together, Fire, People

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, Nothingness, Word, Every

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

Engineering, Genetic Engineering, May

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

Life, Technology, Happy, Happy Life, Our

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

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

Human, Pyramid, Once, Saw, Very

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, Lines

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, Enough, Care

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

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, Opinion, Prison, 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, Create

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions. Derek Jeter

Success, New York, New, Distractions

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

Path, Struggle, Vision, Triumph, Fighter

Balenciaga taught me everything I know. He taught me to care for the details, that it was not necessary to sew on a button where it had no use or to add a flower to make a dress beautiful... no unnecessary detail. Hubert de Givenchy

Flower, Beautiful, Detail, Dress, Me

Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters. Joseph B. Wirthlin

Love, Moment, Small, Result, Way, Insult

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. Fred Allen

Group, Committee, Unprepared, Unwilling

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

Live, Decision, Decisions, Me, Believe

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