The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife. — Thomas Jefferson
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr.
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies. — Herbert Hoover
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification. — Benjamin Graham
Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary. — Carl Andre
Short Redundancy Quotes
I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television. — Joe Buck
Redundancy is expensive but indispensable. — Jane Jacobs
Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement. — Alan Rudolph
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength. — John Milton
Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist. — Italo Calvino
The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily. — Walter Moers
I'm nothing if not redundant! I also repeat myself. — Richard Fish
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy. — Mary Ruefle
I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive. — Angel Haze
One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy." — Marcus J. Ranum
Redundant Redundancy Quotes
My worship is of a very strange kind.
In this, Ganga water is not required.
No special utensils are necessary.
Even flowers are redundant.
In this puja all gods have disappeared.
And emptiness has emerged with euphoria. — Lahiri Mahasaya
If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all. — Thomas Sowell
My goal has always been to add value, not to be redundant, not to get in the way, but to do things that lift and move things forward in a very strategic and objective way so that there are real outcomes. — Michelle Obama
The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy. — Jean Baudrillard
Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r) — Steven Pinker
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioural sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performng the act but does not do so, tehn it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking — Urie Bronfenbrenner
I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you're standing on the field. The crowd is moving and swaying so much, and in so many directions, it makes the stands look blurry, like a pointillist painting. — Wright Thompson
The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics. — George Will
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans. — Thomas Malthus
Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.) — Michael Pollan
Motivational Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. — Rick Ross
No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt — Miyamoto Musashi
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot. — Graham Chapman
Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics. — George Will
Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them. — Anthony Crosland
There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant . . . . The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it? — Craig Silvey
If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things. — Jaggi Vasudev
The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience. — Anurag Kashyap
Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy. — Rick Perry
We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger. — Lakshmi Mittal
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano
The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. — Mark Kozelek
Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow. — Marcus Aurelius
What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art. — Wendy Carlos
If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters. — Peter O'Toole
No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork. — Bill Gates
Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge. — Bill Nye
There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word. — Marshall McLuhan
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you. — Billy Tauzin
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. — Joseph Addison
I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant. — Donna Mills
I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them. — Sandra Bernhard
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. — Washington Irving
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material. — Alan Hollinghurst
Theres nothing to fear but
fears themselves, such as monsters,
rejection, food poisoning, redundancy,
monsters, and oxford commas. — Craig Benzine
Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually . — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The things we have in common from our past, long past, are often in my mind. Now that it is all over bar the final destruction of the weapons I look forward to the freedom to lay bare my experiences unfettered by codes now redundant.
This is the only freedom left to me and those Republicans of like mind. — Dolours Price
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand
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