Sufficiently Quotes
312 Sufficiently quotes by 261 unique authors
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A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing…
— Thornton Wilder
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Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.
— Carl Sagan
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Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated…
— Isadora Duncan
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It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or…
— James Payn
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
— Mark Strand
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In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even…
— Mary McCarthy
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I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to…
— Max Baucus
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In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of…
— Phyllis Bottome
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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and…
— George C. Williams
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For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly,…
— Michael Cunningham
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Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently…
— Albert Einstein
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The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it is gone. But…
— Bernadette Roberts
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The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally view…
— Ronald Ross
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I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me…
— Terry Brooks
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
— Asa Gray
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The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects…
— Asa Gray
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We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant…
— Asa Gray
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I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to…
— Gerard Depardieu
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You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is…
— Stanley Crouch
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in…
— Vince Cable
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[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon…
— Thomas George Bonney
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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to…
— Freeman Dyson
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I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to our species to…
— Paul Levinson
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave…
— Seneca the Younger
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