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• We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive.

  Freeman Dyson

  Running, Distance, Mean

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, uk.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• Willing is superfluous for Me. For grace is ever available to devotees who have steady love and faith. Since I move freely with them, talking and singing, even intellectuals are unable to grasp My Truth, My power, My glory or My real task as Avatar.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Moving, Talking

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• The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means of production in the name of societythis is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not abolished. It dies out.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Independent, Government

  Friedrich Engels (2008). “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Life, Adventure, Insecure

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• The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

  Michelangelo

  Block, Inspiration, Sculpture

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• The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

  Boris Vian

  White, Black, Elements

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• History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot

  Roots, Challenges, Analysis

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2015). “Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History”, p.11, Beacon Press

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• The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

  Peter Drucker

  Marketing, Helpful, Selling

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.91, Routledge

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• For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

  John Milton

  Wise, Cheerful, Care

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton”, p.213

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• Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

  Jan Timman

  Games, Chess Game, Variation

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• Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Lying, Flower, Butterfly

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• It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Freedom, Independent, Media

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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

  Years, Leather Jackets, Hair

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• We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Art, Slavery, Invasion

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Ideas, Long, Sound

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• Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Math, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.163

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• When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

  Albert Einstein

  India, Gita, Happy Independence Day

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• Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not understand. Systems like theirs are only historical curiosities to the 20th century, unless they happen to claim to be appropriate descriptions of Reality. Anyone who believes in these antiquated fantasies stamps himself as ludicrous, posthumous, ineffective, and superfluous. No leading men of the coming decades will be Darwinians, Marxians or Freudians.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Believe, Reality, Men

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• God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Perfect, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Distribution Of Wealth, Poverty

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• It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Television, Economy, Good Things

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.

  Hugh of Saint Victor

  Learning

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• Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

  Jacques Ellul

  Exercise, Thinking, Games

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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

  Lonely, Mind, Speak

  "Supermodel Kim Alexis: 'My son said thank you for never doing nudes'". www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2012.

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