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• Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Simple, Simplicity, Important

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2017

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• Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.

  Rick Perry

  Education, Agency, Energy

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• How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?

  Margaret Caroline Anderson

  War, Eye, Men

  "The Strange Necessity" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1969.

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• In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

  Robin Williams

  Dictionary

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• It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant.

  Clive Barker

  Dream, Art, Believe

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• The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Boards, Film, Force

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• In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

  Roberto Bolano

  Suicide, Political, Climate

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• Madlen: 'It's a relief to me, Lady Queen, that in your own pain, you take no interest in hurting yourself.' Bitterblue: 'Why would I? Why should I? It's foolish. I would like to kick the people who do it.' Madlen: 'That would, perhaps, be redundant, Lady Queen.

  Kristin Cashore

  Hurt, Queens, Pain

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• I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of friends in the last few years. I don't mean that I've fallen out with them, in any dramatic way. We've just decided not to stay in touch. And that's what it's been: a decision, a conscious decision, because it's not difficult to stay in touch with people nowadays, there are so many different ways of doing it. But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, "What's the point?" And then you stop.

  Jonathan Coe

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  Jonathan Coe (2011). “The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim”, p.11, Vintage

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• What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the thought of taking vows never arises. This is only an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Two

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• The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.

  Thomas Malthus

  Children, Eugenics, Population

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you're standing on the field. The crowd is moving and swaying so much, and in so many directions, it makes the stands look blurry, like a pointillist painting.

  Wright Thompson

  Moving, Lsu, Crowds

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• The things we have in common from our past, long past, are often in my mind. Now that it is all over bar the final destruction of the weapons I look forward to the freedom to lay bare my experiences unfettered by codes now redundant.
  This is the only freedom left to me and those Republicans of like mind.

  Dolours Price

  Past, Long, Mind

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• Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Motivation, Opportunity

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.

  Tim Wise

  Strong, Hurt, Commitment

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• The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

  Walter Moers

  Sea, Paper, Written Word

  Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.30, The Overlook Press

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• The next week she withheld my paycheck until I signed a document (drafted by David) in which I promised not to marry Connor. Ever. I signed the document, took the check, and had David draft another document forbidding all Spellmans to practice any form of blackmail. David tried to explain to me that a contract in which you promise not to break the law is ultimately redundant, but I didn't care.

  Lisa Lutz

  Next Week, Law, Practice

  "Revenge of the Spellmans: Document #3". Book by Lisa Lutz, 2009.

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• I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

  Brie Larson

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant.

  Will Durst

  Funny, Travel, Halloween

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• If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Important, Trying

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.com. August/September 2005.

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• I think there was a brief period where Norwegian bands were evolving and that was an interesting time where it seemed like a band like Darkthrone was stuck in the midst of a lot of change and seemed a bit redundant.

  Mat McNerney

  Thinking, Interesting, Band

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

  Mark Kozelek

  Depressing, Challenges, Stressful

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so as to give their candidate an edge and allow the power of massive money to be felt. But reform laws will become irrelevant and redundant as the Internet replaces the special-interest fat cats as the best way to raise money and takes the place of TV as the most effective way to get votes.

  Dick Morris

  Cat, Law, Giving

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• We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Photography, Art, Struggle

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• For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in his head. But it turned out that trying to appear tragic in Incontinence, Indiana, was redundant, and his mother kept shouting at him and making him forget his rhymes. "Tommy, if you keep grinding your teeth like that, they'll wear away and you'll have to have dentures like Aunt Ester." Tommy only wished his beard was as heavy as Aunt Ester's---then he could stare out over the moors while he stroked it pensively.

  Christopher Moore

  Mother, Hero, Dark

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