Sufficient Quotes
892 Sufficient quotes by 701 unique authors
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He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is…
— Primo Levi
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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the…
— Elias Canetti
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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
— Marvin Olasky
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We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a…
— Charles Peguy
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There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in…
— Leslie Orgel
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May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so…
— Paul Cezanne
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Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central…
— Jonathan Raban
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Adequacy is sufficient.
— Adam Osborne
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I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in…
— Lucas Papademos
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I like women who are self-sufficient.
— Ty Pennington
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In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce…
— Robert Trout
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have…
— Anthony Trollope
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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
— Elisabeth Elliot
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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that…
— Mark Twain
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A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was…
— Laurence Olivier
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With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so…
— Horace Mann
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My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write…
— Walt Whitman
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Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation…
— Tim Ferriss
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A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in…
— Emmet Fox
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Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
— Rene Descartes
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I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient…
— Gregory Harrison
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