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• Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Earth, Dogma, Made

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To be a true Progressive it is not sufficient to stand up and say that one belives in what has been promulgated as progressive principles. One must be progressive in heart and active in promoting the progressive principles of today, tomorrow and always. There is no resting point, for humanity is ever ascending to a higher and better goal.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Heart, Goal, Humanity

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.130, Lulu.com

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• The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

  George Washington

  Wise, Party, People

  George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.12

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• So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

  James Madison

  Strong, Fall, Passion

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.44

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• We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Exercise, Decision, Information

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.254, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Mean, Successful

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• I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Wish, Age, Lessons

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• Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Blue, Sky

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, 1988.

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• I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Boredom, Free Will

  "God Emperor of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1981.

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• I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.

  Irving Stone

  Book, Writing, Trying

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• Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.

  Gary North

  Gun, Government, Promise

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• I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Giving, Good Man

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• Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Feelings, Comfort, Needs

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• China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Ancient, Bloodshed, China

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• Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Perfect, Mind, Language

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• I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Commitment, Roles, May

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• The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight of our guilt all by itself. Therefore, to boast in the cross properly at all is to boast in the cross alone.

  Philip Graham Ryken

  Support, Guilt, Weight

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• 'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

  Samantha Power

  Volleyball, War, College

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• It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

  Aristotle

  Know How, Ought, Knows

  Aristotle (1959). “Aristotle, with an English Translation: The "Art" of Rhetoric”

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• No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Justice, Democracy, Wages

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• True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear; and that the grace of Christ shall be sufficient for them.

  Roger Sherman

  Christian, Temptation, Grace

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• Although the church accomplishes many tasks, its only message to the world is the gospel of Christ. Everything else we do is merely an extension of that primary goal. The gospel we offer the lost is superior to every worldly philosophy. Never outdated or in need of correction, it is always sufficient to meet humanity's greatest need: reconciliation with the Creator.

  Charles Stanley

  Philosophy, Goal, Humanity

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• So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, Practice, Violence

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

  Joseph Stowell

  Self, Deceit, Self Sufficient

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• But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Land, Judging

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