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• Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

  Alex Tabarrok

  College, Educated, Wells

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• It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Envy, Joy

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• Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Children, Growing Up, School

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

  John F. Kennedy

  Doubt, Arms, Certain

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.

  Luther Burbank

  Good Life, Believe, Ideas

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• The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Men, Expression

  1905 Heretics, ch.17.

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• Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Self, Certain

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• I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader
  who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reading, Littles, Inattention

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

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• Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Giving, Atheism

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.281

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• However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Yield, Simplicity

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• [Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

  Hugh Ross

  Scary, Mechanic, Quantum

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• I feel badly for them, not sorry, but badly, because I think they've been given poor breaks and difficult, not sufficient opportunity to be who they are and sort of put into that straitjacket with the tie, and all of the things that is really built like a straitjacket when you look at it, and tied up in a sort of a way where their purpose had to be slimmed down to just certain things, and function pared down to the linear, and it is very difficult for men.

  Maya Tiwari

  Sorry, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Law, America

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• One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Distance, Communication

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.91, Cosimo, Inc.

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• ... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.

  Rene Descartes

  Doubt, Behaviour, May

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• Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Littles, Get Up

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.93, Wildside Press LLC

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• In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Reality, Air, Facts

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• The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Virtue, Crime

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.142, Hackett Publishing

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• A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Acceptance, Agreement, Rivers

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• Any housing solution that involves paying for industrially produced building materials and commercial building contractors is doomed to certain failure. If houses are to be built at all, in sufficient quantity, they must be built without money. We must go right outside the framework of the money system, bypass the factories, and ignore the contractors.

  Hassan Fathy

  Money, Failure, House

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• We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.

  William Howard Taft

  Army, Should Have, Law

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• Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, andwhat circumstances would be drastic enough for presenting the voucher. Obviously there is no repayment that would be sufficient . . . but the effort to call in the debt of life is too outrageous to be treated as anything other than a joke.

  Frank Pittman

  Years, Creating, Effort

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• We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Education, Children, Organization

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• As estimated, you died. Things marched,
  sufficient, to that end.
  Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented
  terror, so many routine cries.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Death, Routine, Cry

  Geoffrey Hill (2000). “New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Should there be anyone who feels he is too weak to do better because of that greatest of fears, the fear of failure, there is no more comforting assurance to be had than the words of the Lord: 'My Grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them' (Ether 12:27)

  Thomas S. Monson

  Strong, Humble, Men

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