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When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. – Marcus Tullius Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. – Gail Sheehy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. – Fran Lebowitz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. – Maurice Baring	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple. – R. Brokhoff	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. – Richard Harkness	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. – Dorothy C. Fisher	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. – Carl Reiner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. – Arthur Wellesley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. – William Jr. Wrigley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner. – Kedar Joshi	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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