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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.


#drawing #lines #machine #paragraph #parts

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.


Edward de Bono


#attention #being #complex #complexity #could

Poverty is unnecessary.


Muhammad Yunus


#poverty #unnecessary

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


#carry #day #eliminate #figured #get

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.


Richard Dooling


#aggressive #back #care #cruel #domestic

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.


Duong Van Minh


#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

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


Fred Allen


#committee #group #unnecessary #unprepared #unwilling

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.


Bea Arthur


#assumed #happy #i #joan #just

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.


John Adams


#guilt #unnecessary #war

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.


Brian P. Cleary


#i #i love #love #sophisticated #unnecessary






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