#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. ↗

— Boris Vian

#black #black music #easily #elements #following

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

— Conan O'Brien

#born #century #economy #good #good thing

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. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#because #devise #direct #does #her

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#directly #does #either #essential #everything

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#become #beggars #general #givers #i

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. ↗

— Hans Kung

#declaration #essence #ethic #however #human

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. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#dash #force #foreign #grow #men

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#nature #obtainable #reach #requires #superfluous

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. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#comment #crux #either #formidable #may

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#become #designed #kiss #lovely #nature