Sufficient Quotes
892 Sufficient quotes by 701 unique authors
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All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.
— Charles Yu
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The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of…
— Aurangzeb
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
— John Dryden
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And I know that God and His grace are sufficient for the moment I find myself in. When I wake up tomorrow, whatever the challenges,…
— Ed Dobson
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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient…
— Emmet Fox
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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
— Milton Friedman
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
— Khalil Gibran
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
— Alexander the Great
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On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on…
— Alan Dershowitz
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the…
— David Hume
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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and…
— David Hume
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
— Mahalia Jackson
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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its…
— Henry James
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
— Samuel Johnson
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
— Imran Khan
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In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and…
— Paul Klee
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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder…
— Fran Lebowitz
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