Antonio Guterres

Authorities that erect major obstacles to migration - or place severe restrictions on migrants' work opportunities - inflict needless economic self-harm, as they impose barriers to having their labor needs met in an orderly, legal fashion. Worse still, they unintentionally encourage illegal migration.

Portuguese Politician

Aristotle

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Greek Philosopher

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

American Athlete

Goldwin Smith

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

Canadian Historian

William Barclay

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

Scottish Theologian

Richard Ford

For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.

American Author

Marti Noxon

Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people with diseases related to mental illness.

American Writer

Nathaniel Philbrick

In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.

Claire Danes

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

American Actress

Edwin Way Teale

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Use 'needless' to stress that something is excessively redundant or could be completely avoided.

Redundancy Highlight

'Needless' often precedes a negative outcome highlighting something that could have been avoided.

Unnecessary Negative

Use 'needless' when expressing criticism over an action or regret about an event that was unnecessary.

Criticism or Regret

When saying 'needless to say,' you indicate that the information should be common knowledge or obvious.

Presumed Knowledge

'Needless to say' works as a transitional phrase, often used to emphasize a point along with what's been said.

Transitional Phrase

Use 'needless to say' to add dramatic effect, even when the information is not completely obvious to everyone.

Conversational Emphasis

 years old and I wanted to get my ears pierced and so I had to put a business plan together for my parents to convince them that there was value associated with me getting my ears pierced needless to say the first time I was shot down they said now they said it's too expensive and we're really not quite

The art of responsibility...

 which suggests awareness of threats. We've reached the point that research has made us so sure that vertebrates recognize pain that it's illegal in many countries to needlessly harm these animals. But what about other types of animals like invertebrates? These animals aren't legally protected,

How do animals...

 Do you find yourself in conversations, like, raising this, trying to take the view that, "No, no, no, you're needlessly sparking friction here, take a more generous view"? Because it feels to me like there's so much at stake between how many people are trying to nudge

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 Instead, the way to avoid needless bloodshed is to establish a public understanding of our shared human nature. Ironically, it was this cycle of relatively peaceful ideas that triggered his fallout with many fellow writers and philosophers. Despite the controversy,

Is life meaningless? And...

 to say it's possible for them to have beliefs and desires that reliably lead to needless human suffering just admitting this will transform our discourse about morality okay we live in it in a in a world in which the boundaries between nations mean less and

Science can answer moral...

 to have beliefs and desires that reliably lead to needless human suffering. Just admitting this will transform our discourse about morality. We live in a world in which the boundaries between nations mean less and less, and they will one day mean nothing.

 I should add that my grandmother had no problem whatsoever with the dinosaur part, but she has a deep-seated fear of snakes and crocodiles. So, needless to say that at least from her point of view, things did not really get any better as I got older.

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 Which I actually did, and which needless to say did not endear me to the faculty. In effect, a vicious cycle of fear, avoidance, mistrust and misunderstanding had been established, and this was a battle in which I felt powerless

The voices in my head PIPE...

 future and more orangutangs could needlessly die it can't stay in this but the team never knew they'd need to move it without one of the medical team to tranquilize the orangutan they face a difficult challenge

Saving a Baby Orangutan,...

 So there's a lot of us, needless to say. We're not new or rare. We're just invisible. We've existed throughout every culture in history.

Needless

Not needed or necessary.

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Saying something that everyone already knows or accepts.

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