Sufficient Quotes
892 Sufficient quotes by 701 unique authors
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A word to the wise is sufficient
— Plautus
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others.…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives…
— Samuel Johnson
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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies…
— Edward Abbey
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The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
— Edward Abbey
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The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a…
— George Washington
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Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. ... The common and continual…
— George Washington
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Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly…
— Thomas Paine
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It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate…
— Carl Jung
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Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to…
— B.F. Skinner
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By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and…
— Rush Limbaugh
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If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public…
— William Randolph Hearst
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An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.
— Malcolm X
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While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials…
— Harriet Miers
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For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for…
— Richard Baxter
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We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray…
— Robert E. Lee
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The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can…
— Robert E. Lee
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When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet,…
— John Steinbeck
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon…
— G I Gurdjieff
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Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
— Samuel Johnson
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"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
— Samuel Johnson
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In opposition... to all the suggestions of the devil, the sole, simple, and sufficient answer is the word of God. This puts to flight all…
— Charles Hodge
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For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find…
— William Butler Yeats
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