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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.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
devise, devises, devising, direct, invention, inventions, lacking, simple, subtleties, subtlety, superfluous
«Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
cheap, dear, One Penny, pennies, penny, superfluous
«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.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| Keywords:
anarchist, anarchists, an anarchist, privately, superfluous
«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.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
as needed, barber, barbered, Barbers, before long, can, coat, coated, coating, done, For, hair, jacket, jackets, leather, Leather jacket, long, many, minimize, minimized, minimizes, need, problem, problem solving, sock, socks, solves, superfluous, suspender, suspenders, that year, The Problem of the, the year after, with longing, years
«Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
buy, buy at, buy in, buy into, superfluities, superfluity, superfluous, wealth
«Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
superfluities, superfluity, superfluous
«It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
superfluous
«Superfluous branches We lop away that bearing boughs may live»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bearing, bearings, boughs, branches, lop, lopping, lops, superfluous
