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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

  Correr, Distancia, Media

  "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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• I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Beautiful, Home

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Selections from the Journals”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• A menos que las horas fuesen tazas de saco, y los minutos capones, y los relojes lenguas de rameras, y los cuadrantes signos de casas de saltos, y el mismo bendito sol una hermosa moza caliente en tafetán color de llama, no veo razón para que seas tan superfluo en exigir la hora del día.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Flames, House

  1596-7 Prince Harry to Falstaff. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.6-12.

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• Very well,” he said with a small sigh. “Ladies today are so very capable. It breaks my hea rt, really.” He leaned in, almost as if sharing a secret. “No one likes to feel superfluous.” Grace just stared at him. “Rendered mute by my grace and charm,” he said, stepping back to allow them to exit. “It happens all the time. Really, I shouldn‟t be allowed near the ladies. I have such a vexing effect on you.

  Julia Quinn

  Grace, Secret, Today

  Julia Quinn (2008). “The lost duke of Wyndham”

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• Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Sacrifice, Winning, Play

  Alexander Pushkin (2012). “The Queen of Spades and Other Stories”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

  Ingrid Bergman

  Kissing, Way, Conversation

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• La refutación histórica como refutación definitiva.- Antiguamente se trataba de probar que no hay Dios - hoy se indica cómo surgió la creencia de que hay un Dios y cómo esta creencia adquirió su peso e importancia: una contraprueba de que no hay Dios se convierte así en superflua.- Cuando en otros tiempos se habían refutado las "pruebas de la existencia de Dios" presentadas, siempre quedaba la duda de si no podrían aducirse mejores pruebas que las que se acababan de refutar: en aquellos tiempos los ateos no sabían cómo hacer tabla rasa.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Historical, Doubt

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• The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Dog, Long, Dachshunds

  Mary Doria Russell (2008). “Dreamers Of The Day”, p.38, Random House

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• La alegría está en todas partes; es superflua, innecesaria; es más, contradice muy a menudo los más perentorios mandatos de la necesidad. Existe para mostrar que los lazos de la ley sólo pueden explicarse por el amor; son como el cuerpo y el alma. La alegría es la realización de la verdad de la unidad, la unidad de nuestra alma con el mundo y del alma del mundo con el amante supremo.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Law, Oneness

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Se ríen de la obediencia, el ayuno y la oración, pero sólo a través de ellos se alcanza la verdadera libertad. Corto mis deseos superfluos e innecesarios, sojuzgo mi voluntad orgullosa y gratuita y la castigo con la obediencia, y con la ayuda de Dios alcanzo la libertad de espíritu y con ella la alegría espiritual.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Espiritual, Oración, Real

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). "Los hermanos Karamazov" (Edición ruso inglesa ilustrada): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)", p.747, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts. Let's just keep it that way for a while." "So you don't really have a theory?" "Clueless." "You lying bag of fish heads." "I can fire you, you know. Even if Clay was the one that hired you, I'm not totally superfluous to this operation yet. I'm kind of in charge. I can fire you. Then how will you live?" "I'm not getting paid." "See, right there. Perfectly good concept ruined by the application of fact.

  Christopher Moore

  Lying, Clueless, Fire

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• When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn to you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.

  Till Lindemann

  Stupid, Clothes, East Germany

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• Cuando se dice que no vale la pena refutar una cosa, se puede estar seguro de que, o bien es flagrantemente estúpida -en cuyo caso todo comentario es superfluo-, o bien es algo formidable, el quid mismo del problema.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Verdad, Estupidez, Mayo

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• Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.

  Maya Angelou

  Dog, Writing, Ideas

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• The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

  Miguel Ángel

  Artist, Hands, Brain

  John Addington Symonds, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2002). “The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence”, p.110, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, VII conde de Shaftesbury

  Nature, Money, Perfect

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• Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.

  Joseph Hertz

  Harmony, Lacking, Creator

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1996). “ספר חמשה חומשי תורה עם ההפטרות: נדפס על פי המסורה ומתורגם אנגלית”

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• It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

  Séneca el Viejo

  Motivational, Men, Sweat

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• ¿Qué es entonces el encanto? La concesión gratuita de una gracia, el gasto de algo dado por la naturaleza en su papel de derrochadora... algo extra, superfluo, innecesario, esencialmente un poder tirado a la basura.

  Doris Lessing

  Dar, Gracia, Roles

  Particularmente gatos' (1967) cap. 9

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• Si, en un individuo, la formación universitaria produce un gusto por la ociosidad refinada, un disgusto por el esfuerzo sostenido, una arrogancia intelectual estéril o un sentido de distanciamiento superfluo del mundo de los hombres reales que hacen el trabajo real del mundo, entonces ha perjudicado a ese individuo.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Men, Intellectual Arrogance

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• El Islam me parece una obra de arquitectura perfecta. Todas sus partes están armoniosamente concebidas para complementarse y apoyarse mutuamente; nada sobra ni falta, y el resultado es una estructura de absoluto equilibrio y sólida compostura.

  Muhammad Asad

  Islamic, Perfect, Support

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• Mi modelo de escritura es mi madre, que también es escritora. Ella siempre valoró la claridad y la sencillez por encima de todo. Si alguien no entiende lo que escribes, todo lo demás es superfluo. Irrelevante. Si algún lector reflexivo y curioso encuentra impenetrable lo que hago, he fracasado.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Madre, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Entrevista en Goodreads, www.goodreads.com. Diciembre de 2008.

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• I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

  Kiki Dimoula

  Would Be, Heat, March

  Source: blog.yupnet.org

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• None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspiración, Arte, Escritura

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• The superfluous is very necessary.

  Voltaire

  Wisdom (Sabiduría)

  'Le Mondain' (1736) v.22

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