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And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.
Ben Carson
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I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.


Andy Murray
There are things we can all do to help, including carpooling and traveling only when necessary, in order to save gas during this time. However, there is also something more important which we can all do: buy only the gas which you need.
Jo Bonner
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.


Albert Camus
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I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.
Paul Schrader
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Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
Marquis de Lafayette
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
Zhang Zhidong
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.


Cal Hubbard
I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end, you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
Norm MacDonald
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Trying to understand women is a tall order period.


Ricky Schroder
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.
Michael Nesmith
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao Zedong
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I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
Hedy Lamarr
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I'm not an absolutist about free speech. Intellectually, I believe that most of the time it's better to let things get said, argue them, and put lies and stupidities to rest. Practically, I know that newspapers rarely issue corrections with the same prominence they give to denouncements - and Twitter, by its nature, never does.
Nick Harkaway
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Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
Karel Capek
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In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
Thorstein Veblen
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.


Albert Camus
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.


Robert Frost
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.
Josiah Strong
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The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent.
Said Nursi
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