Sufficient Quotes

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Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the… — Abraham Lincoln
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim
The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has… — John Baillie
In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within… — Shunryu Suzuki
To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and… — Peter Drucker
Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and… — Russell L. Ackoff
Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say,… — Henry David Thoreau
Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked… — Joseph Wood Krutch
With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or data patterns representing… — Robert J. Sawyer
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there… — Bertrand Russell
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need. — Harlan F. Stone
This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly… — Stephen Breyer
Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole… — Robert Walpole
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have… — S. S. Van Dine
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from… — Mark Twain
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other… — Alan Cooper
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay… — Ezra Taft Benson
Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless we… — Phil Harding
But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new… — Lauren Oliver
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is… — David Hume
As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient conditioning rather than… — Wes Nisker
Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace. — Ann Voskamp
The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere. — Newt Gingrich
You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children… — Patrick Pearse

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