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Tag Name "Superfluous" (125)

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Eliminate the superfluous.
Giorgio Armani
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We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
Richard Baxter
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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.
Horace
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Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
Piero Ferrucci
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I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them, and then come to a close. I usually feel that there are no superfluous extras, but probably most composers feel that way about their works.
Barbara Harbach
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What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.
Emile M. Cioran
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Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
Paul Klee
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My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
Horace
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The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.
John Knox
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Speculators often prosper through ignorance it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss
Benjamin Graham
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Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
Kim Alexis
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In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should be excised, as a growth, unnecessary, should be excised.
Eli Siegel
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Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly it's the highest in the industrial world by far. New and onerous crime bills are being passed to deal with this superfluous population.
Noam Chomsky
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Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.
Saint John Chrysostom
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Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
Horace
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Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
Jacques Ellul
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Long hair minimizes the need for barbers socks can be done without one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years suspenders are superfluous.
Albert Einstein
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
Elias Canetti
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It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books.
Mary Kingsley
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Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.
Hugh of Saint Victor
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Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Paulo Coelho
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It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason
Thomas Aquinas
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Will Durant
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