Sufficiently Quotes
312 quotes by 268 authors
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in…
— Aristotle
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
— Ambrose Bierce
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before…
— Samuel Butler
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them…
— Benjamin Franklin
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What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further…
— Kelly Lin
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As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also through criminalization of…
— Johan Galtung
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You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I…
— Isaac Asimov
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect…
— David Hume
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
— Moliere
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It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on…
— Martin Rees
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies…
— Denis Diderot
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
— Gregory Benford
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Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you…
— Walter Russell
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The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove…
— Willis R. Whitney
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The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for…
— Brian Tracy
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