Superfluity Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by…
— Francois Coillard
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I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.
— John Knox
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Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
— William Shakespeare
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A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose. Within…
— Eliot Noyes
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As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
— Margaret Cavendish
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I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man…
— Freeman Tilden
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We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,…
— Max Nordau
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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all…
— Oscar Wilde
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I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
— Theophile Gautier
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The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
— Rollo May
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Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
— Will Self
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My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.
— Wilkie Collins
Who Wrote These Superfluity Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Superfluity Quotes as follows: