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The superfluous is very necessary.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.
Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.
I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.
What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.
Foreign players are great for Serie A if they add something extra, but a lot of them are superfluous.
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
I hate exposition and superfluous dialogue. I hate when dialogue is trying to explain or patronize or finger-point.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
If your attention is on superfluous aspects that are not part of the story, then you can't be concentrating on the human realities of the piece.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect.
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.
The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
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.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
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.
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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.
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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.
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.
Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.
The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be, 'What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better than humans?'