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• The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that 'writing is rewriting' - maybe more of a sense than was pervasive 10 years ago that the first or second pass of a story is sufficient. That is an idea that is easily dislodged, but I suspect it might have something to do with the turnaround time re: blogging and so on - this sense that there is some essential truth about a first draft that one runs the risk of "ruining" by coming back to it.

  George Saunders

  Running, Writing, Years

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• [We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

  Donald Trump

  Self, Needs, Select

  Source: time.com

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• Therefore today we have an absolutely sufficient level of gold and foreign currency reserves in order to ensure economic stability and sustainable foreign trade turnover.

  Vladimir Putin

  Order, Gold, Levels

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him.

  Conrad Aiken

  Thinking, Splinters, Littles

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• When I am told (by those who confuse predestination with God's providence) that God already knows who will be saved and who will be damned, and therefore anything we do is useless, I usually answer with four truths that the bible spells out for us:God wants that everyone be saved; No one is predestined to go to hell; Jesus died for everyone; and everyone is given sufficient graces for salvation.

  Gabriele Amorth

  Jesus, Grace, Want

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• To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only attain by much discipline and slow advances; and when we think we have made great way, we shall often find reason to confess in the hour of trial, that we had greatly, far too greatly, over-rated our progress.

  William Wilberforce

  Thinking, Discipline, Progress

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.

  Rene Descartes

  Errors, Clarity, Judgment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Russia, Organization

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Heart, Winning, Mind

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic feelings by participating in the situations of others and acquiring an understanding of them. He thinks we also have a duty to make ourselves into the kind of person for whom the recognition that something is our duty would be a sufficient incentive to do it (if no other incentives were available to us). That's what he means by "the duty to act from the motive of duty".

  Allen W. Wood

  Mean, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.

  Bill Mollison

  Earth, Heal

  Source: permaculturenews.org

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• If you're filing bankruptcy, you will likely want to hire an attorney. But for debt settlement, a company is sufficient, or as I said, you can often do the legwork on your own.

  Jean Chatzky

  Debt, Want, Said

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Puerto Rico is a government that is spending money that it doesn't have. What's coming in and what's going out don't match. That is, what they are receiving in taxes is not sufficient to cover the spending that they are taking on. And any entity that does that, whether a family, a business, a government, is going to go broke and bankrupt. They are asking to be given the right to declare bankruptcy, which I think should be an option, as a last resort, if there is no other resource.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Government, Receiving

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• US forces have been increased [in Afghanistan ] from some 21,000 to about 31,000 over the past two years and a number of coalition countries have also increased their forces, there still are not sufficient troops.

  David Petraeus

  Country, Past, Two

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• I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Self, Self Sufficient, Involved

  "Shirley MacLaine is angelic in ‘Heavenly’ Hallmark TV movie". Interview with Lynn Elber, www.apnews.com. November 22, 2016.

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• Energy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are still dependant on energy sources that are 100 to 150 years old while virtually every other sector of the economy has transformed itself. This is why we believe that the faith that many environmentalists still hold that carbon regulations and taxes will drive sufficient private sector investment into energy markets to create the kind of innovation we need is unfounded.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Believe, Years, Innovation

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

  Bill McKibben

  Citizens, Currents, Carbon

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• The alternative of hypothetical universalism, according to which Christ's work is sufficient for all but efficient only for the elect, was alive and well in early Reformed thought. Moreover - and importantly for our purposes - this view was not regarded as an aberration but as a legitimate position that could be taken within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought. But that means that the Five Points aren't the non-negotiable conceptual core of Calvinism after all.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Taken, Mean, Views

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• Give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Self, People

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• What Mr. Muhammad says is, they should take their Navy and their - Merchant Fleet and ship us back where they got us.And that's not deportation, that's - returning stolen property to its proper owner.Now, since the government doesn't want to do that, then they - and they have already proven that they can't bring about peaceful relations on an integrated basis in this country, give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Government, Self

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• I think from my point of view - I won't say it doesn't matter whether [Darwinian explanations] are right or wrong, it's just sufficient in some cases, for me, to be able to say, Well, at least it's not totally implausible from a Darwinian point of view.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Views, Matter

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by Wilson's Red Scare, but it dramatically revived in the 1930s. It spearheaded the social-democratic New-Deal style changes which were beneficial to the country - not sufficient, but beneficial. That could happen again.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Style, Scare

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• It's absolutely true that people who believed Hillary Clinton would be a decent or even strong nominee need to think why that got that wrong. Laying the entire blame at the feet of Russia and the FBI is not sufficient. The biggest reason things went wrong were her own choices and her own weaknesses.

  Jonathan Chait

  Strong, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I've always viewed the Paris Agreement as a starting point. If you look at all the commitments that have been made by all the countries, it's still not sufficient to deal with the very dangerous situation we face. What it has done is that it created an architecture whereby as technology improves, as we find new clean sources of energy, as we make our economies more efficient, then gradually we can turn up the dial and improve the outcomes of Paris.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Commitment, Technology

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Strong, Self, Feels

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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