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One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. ↗

— David Hilbert

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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

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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. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. ↗

— Elias Canetti

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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

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