Sufficient Quotes - Page 35

• Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

  Ignazio Silone

  Struggle, Men, Liberty

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• When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Loss, Ideas, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The EU lacks a story. For previous generations, the peace argument was a sufficient. But what story do I tell my 20-year-old son? How do I explain to him that we need the EU for the future?

  Margot Wallstrom

  Son, Years, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Country, Russia, Self

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Vision, Palaces, Illusion

  ""America Must Listen"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. September 24, 2006.

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• Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even more complex and expensive. Simple economics dictates that companies and venture funds will invest more in products that can generate a sufficient return.

  David Mixner

  Simple, Drug, Dollars

  "Why We Can’t Forget about HIV/AIDS in Health-Care Reform" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2009.

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• money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

  Margaret Heffernan

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

  Lydia M. Child

  Theatre, Amusement, Hours

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia M. Child, 1843.

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• But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Pride, Self, Pausing

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• This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mistake, Fall

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• There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.

  Robert McNamara

  Differences, Numbers, People

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• It is sufficient to estimate the enemy situation correctly and to concentrate your strength to capture him. There is no more to it than this. He who lacks foresight and underestimates his enemy will surely be captured by him.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Underestimate, Capture

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• With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

  Roald Amundsen

  Adventure, Planning, Expeditions

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• A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.496, Bantam Classics

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• When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient.

  Albert Einstein

  Able, Wells

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• Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

  Saint Patrick

  Greed, Deeds, Neighbor

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• In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved its fortunes by shooting a sufficient number of the representatives of the other side to give it a majority. . . . Cromwell and Robespierre . . . acted likewise.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Party, Years

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.136, Routledge

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• A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

  William Faulkner

  Color, Europe, Fire

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• That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hypocrite, Vanity, Law

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Insecure, Self

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

  Julian Baggini

  Law, Morality, Citizenship

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• Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.

  Eoin Colfer

  Different, Would Be, Use

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

  Ayn Rand

  Reading, People, Library

  Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.138, Penguin

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• Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Thinking, Judging, Humanity

  "La Loi (The Law)". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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• If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble.

  William T. Vollmann

  Writing, Apology, Matter

  William T. Vollmann (1994). “Butterfly Stories: A Novel”, p.3, Grove Press

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