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• A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident and relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion and morality whenever it seems convenient

  Michael Horton

  Self, Church, Morality

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• Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall come to the brink of a precipice, or be stopped by a wall; must not this to him seem very admirable and surprising? He cannot conceive how it is possible for mortals to frame such predictions as these, which to him would seem as strange and unaccountable as prophesy doth to others. Even they who are blessed with the visive faculty may (though familiarity make it less observed) find therein sufficient cause of admiration.

  David Berman

  Wall, Blessed, Knowledge

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• For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

  Francis Bacon

  Religion, Foundation, Doe

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?

  Benjamin Harrison

  Law, Practice, Class

  Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Race, Would Be

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.28

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• Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Mean, Religion, Belief

  "The Faith of a Heretic". Book by Walter Kaufmann, 1961.

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• It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

  John Bright

  People, Catholic, Church

  John Bright (1869). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy: By John Bright. Edited by James E. Thorold Rogers. In 2 Volumes”, p.534

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• How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.

  Richard Steele

  World, Action, Admiration

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.136

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• Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.

  David Lodge

  Fall, Break Through, Perfect

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.342, Penguin

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• Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence of artistic expression is invention and artists necessarily draw on their own experience. But if the rules of liability are unclear, artists will not be able to know how much disguise is sufficient to protect their claims from the claims of those who may see themselves in the portrayals.

  Irving Kaufman

  Responsibility, Creativity, Artist

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• Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

  Adam Smith

  Doe, Maintenance, Violence

  Adam Smith, Laurence Dickey (1993). “Wealth of Nations (Abridged)”, p.91, Hackett Publishing

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• Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

  Brian Herbert

  Real, Imagination, Genius

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.130, Macmillan

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• Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

  Alan Watts

  Long, Effort, Mind

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• There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

  Bryan Caplan

  Errors, Data, Two

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• ...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.

  Paul Krugman

  Stupid, Taken, Ideas

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• There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Greed, Needs, Answers

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• The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal.
  Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive both.

  Robert Reich

  Jobs, Goal, Growth

  "Why We Should Stop Obsessing About the Federal Budget Deficit headshot" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2012.

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• The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Self

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• We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Mean, Humanity

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, . . . we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition.

  Ian Tattersall

  Mirrors, Imagination, One Day

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• Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed. .

  Nancy Leveson

  Might, Requirements, Behavior

  Nancy Leveson (2011). “Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety”, p.49, MIT Press

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• Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spring, Men, Secret

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• The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Hatred, Titles

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• In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.

  Larry Niven

  Simple, Challenges, Scream

  Larry Niven (2014). “Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One”, p.29, Macmillan

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• A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Names, Atheism

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

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