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Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
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And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.


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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
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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
Warren Buffett
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Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.
Gloria Steinem
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Anthony Trollope
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.


Pablo Picasso
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
Norman Mailer
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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.


Freeman Dyson
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.


Jean Rostand
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Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.


Gaby Hoffmann
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.


Ezra Pound
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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.


Theodore Hesburgh
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What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.


Robert Fripp
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
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The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.


Rob Thomas
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.


Hans Hofmann
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.


Carl Reiner
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In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they want to see. Perhaps it is something that is almost written into your cultural DNA: a desire to answer your Founding Fathers' call to create a 'more perfect union.'
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
Steve Case