Sufficient Quotes
892 Sufficient quotes by 701 unique authors
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Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
— Robert A. Heinlein
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We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
— Sam Harris
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
— Bram Stoker
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There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It…
— Emmet Fox
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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
— Brennan Manning
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We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a…
— Alain de Botton
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The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is…
— E F Schumacher
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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the…
— Pentti Linkola
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I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation…
— Pentti Linkola
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Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do…
— William Nicholson
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And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected…
— Rose Tremain
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Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.
— Patricia Briggs
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first…
— Richard Dawkins
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As for His failing you, never dream of it -- hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
— Charles Darwin
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I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).
— Anthony Hope
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe…
— Carl Sagan
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However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor;…
— Derrick Bell
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.
— Austin Osman Spare
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For love is sufficient unto love.
— Khalil Gibran
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An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything…
— Tove Jansson
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I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place…
— Henry David Thoreau
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[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and…
— Elizabeth I
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