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«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.»
Author: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
(Ambassador, Senator)
| Keywords:
at best, directly, fundamental, III, indirectly, prevent, primary, superfluous, The United Nations, United Nations, world war
«When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless»
«The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include; to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do.»
«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.»
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
(Author, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
comment, commented, crux, flagrantly, formidable, refute, refutes, refuting, Something Stupid, superfluous
«The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No b»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
American Woman, decoration, decorations, superfluous, The Black, wheels
«Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.»
«We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, extremes, related, related to, superfluous, to that
«We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has not superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends.»
«The superfluous is very necessary»
«The superfluous, a very necessary thing»
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