Sufficiently Quotes
312 Sufficiently quotes by 261 unique authors
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons,…
— James Madison
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People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery…
— Kenneth Roberts
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For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the…
— James Madison
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Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I…
— Michel de Montaigne
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As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:…
— Thomas Paine
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.
— Unknown Author
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I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently…
— Kim Stanley
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A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme…
— Seth Klarman
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We now haveĀ irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high grade,…
— Dick Cheney
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Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
— Philip Greenspun
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Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite…
— James Madison
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Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence…
— Charles Babbage
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I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those…
— Edward Bellamy
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Although I entertain great respect and regard for the female sex I consider the qualifications of the ladies to be already sufficiently charming without adding…
— James Francis
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Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind;…
— Frederick William Faber
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We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.
— Charles Peguy
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Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build…
— Caterina Fake
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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that…
— Socrates
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My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the…
— Zeno of Elea
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Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system…
— Roy Spencer
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They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them,…
— George Orwell
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A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of…
— Evan Thomas
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Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects…
— Benjamin Barber
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