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Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
Umberto EcoRead
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
Emile DurkheimRead
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
John IrvingRead
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Chinua AchebeRead
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
Eckhart TolleRead

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