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• A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand men has sometimes been sufficient to destroy, in a single day, the work of ages.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loss, Men, Victory

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1695, Delphi Classics

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• Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us to deduce that he is a political nitwit. Other Nobel laureates have been nitwits, for instance, Bertrand Russell. There are a lot of political nitwits in this world. Perhaps the Times could give Krugman a cooking column. He would be its Nobel Prise-winning cooking columnist.

  Bob Tyrrell

  Winning, Long, Giving

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• The government - the ultimate short-term-oriented player - cannot withstand much pain in the economy or the financial markets. Bailouts and rescues are likely to occur, though not with sufficient predictability for investors to comfortably take advantage. The government will take enormous risks in such interventions, especially if the expenses can be conveniently deferred to the future. Some of the price-tag is in the form of back- stops and guarantees, whose cost is almost impossible to determine.

  Seth Klarman

  Pain, Player, Government

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• Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioural sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performng the act but does not do so, tehn it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Motivation, Opportunity

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• Jesus has thrilled and satisfied the heart and mind of the Father for eternity. He must be all-sufficient for you.

  Michael Reeves

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

  John Smith

  Country, World, Causes

  John Smith (2007). “The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography”, National Geographic Books

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• Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get the mind ready to receive the Spirit. But what the scriptures call conversion-the change of mind and heart that gives us the direction and strength to move resolutely toward eternal life-comes only by the witness and power of the Holy Spirit.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Moving, Heart, Giving

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• The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Scripture, Inspired, Holy

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• Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream . . . But we must go on or we will all go under. And the great criticism that can be made is that the world lacks a plan that will enable us to go on . . . We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace - which is rapidly becoming a universal necessity - into actuality.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Dream, War, Imagination

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• I'm dead in the water if I can't see the all sufficient glory of God.

  Louie Giglio

  Water, Glory, Ifs

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• The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

  Terence McKenna

  Clueless, News, Democratic

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• This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Feet, Intuition

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1064, Delphi Classics

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• There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to reveal itself. The poems of first love are a case in point, and certainly such love is a sufficient stimulus.

  Otto Weininger

  Pain, First Love, Love Is

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.121, Рипол Классик

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• Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he didn't make some money at chess, I could see him becoming a street person, shaking his fists at cars as they passed by his corner of the block. Isn't it preferable to have him in a self-sufficient position rather than as a liability of the state?

  Jeremy Silman

  Block, Self, Car

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• It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Delay, Care, Nobody Cares

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• I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Serving Others, Tire, Enough

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• The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.

  A. B. Simpson

  Divine Wisdom, Mind, World

  A. B. Simpson (2009). “Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit”, p.43, Moody Publishers

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Average, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to handle those situations is at a sufficient remove. It's like a doctor and a nurse and a casualty situation. You can't help the patient and you can't help yourself by emoting. And I don't think cinema is intended for therapy, so I object also to that huge, massive manipulation which is perpetrated on the public.

  Peter Greenaway

  Emotional, Thinking, Doctors

  "Flesh and Ink". Interview with Christopher Hawthorne, www.salon.com. June 06, 1997.

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• We need to learn, practice, study, know, and understand how angels live with each other. When this community comes to the point to be perfectly honest and upright, you will never find a poor person; none will lack, all will have sufficient.

  Brigham Young

  Angel, Practice, Community

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• I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn’t weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Self, Long

  "When Stars Collide". www.out.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Realization, Humans, Human Beings

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• If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

  William Penn

  Mind, Conditions, Ifs

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.143

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• I want to have young children although my mother and father are even now young sufficient to just take care of them.

  Rita Rudner

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Perhaps the old fogies in the blogosphere get that way because, well, we stop taking the whole megillah so seriously. And we can't take it seriously because, well, this isn't our primary means of employment and never will be. Once the blogosphere is run by sufficient numbers of people who are paid to blog, us enlightened amateurs just look semi-pro.

  Daniel Drezner

  Running, Mean, Numbers

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