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When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
Emile Durkheim
When morals are adequate, regulations are superfluous. When morals are inadequate, regulations are unworkable.
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When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord.
Nate Saint
When life's journey is complete, and we arrive at our destination, those who have lightened their burden by shedding superfluous matters will have the most profound offering to present to the Almighty.
3.
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
Emile Durkheim
When ethics are adequate, legislation is unnecessary; when ethics are inadequate, law is unenforceable.
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Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
Eckhart Tolle
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
Dorothy Parker
7.
Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.
Peter Saville
8.
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.
Chester W. Nimitz
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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
Carl Andre
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When you access and evaluate your goals, you will uncluttered your life of the unnecessary.
Mike Murdock
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I try to keep myself out of the unnecessary bullshit.
Rakim
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One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.
Kage Baker
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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
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The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.
Sun Tzu
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Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.
Mahathir Mohamad
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If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
Charles II of England
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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.
Peace Pilgrim
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We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
Richard Baxter
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Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
Peter Sellers
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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
Margaret Mead
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It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
Willard Scott
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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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The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
Benjamin Tucker
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When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive
Florynce Kennedy
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
Maimonides
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The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
Rose Wilder Lane
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The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.
Betty Friedan
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Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves
Bruce Lee
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True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.
Sharon Salzberg
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The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.
Benjamin Graham
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But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.
John Desmond Bernal
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Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.
Tommy Ramone
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I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know.
As soon as I shall have reached it,
as soon as I shall become unnecessary,
an atom will suffice to shatter me.
Till then,
not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.
Evan Esar
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Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.
Horatio Dresser
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
Alan Greenspan
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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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My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.
Prince Philip
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The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given.
Paul Dirac
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A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.
Helmut Krone
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Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.
Marcus Aurelius
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Politics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated.
Jonas Jonasson
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...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
Aldous Huxley