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• A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

  Plutarch

  Reality, Vices, Virtue

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• Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

  William Pollard

  Thinking, Hands, Yesterday

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• A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Rainy Day, Weather, World

  "We Can Change the Weather: 100 Cases of Changeability". Book by Marleen Wynants, Sara Engelen (p. 7), 2010.

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• The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, Heart, Literature

  'Emblems' (1635) bk. 1, no. 12 'Hugo de Anima'

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• Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Motivational, Uplifting, Failure

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• Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

  Anne Roiphe

  Reality, Two, Decay

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• It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Motivational, Commitment, Want

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• For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Travel, Adventure, Funny Travel

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.

  George Soros

  Thinking, Merit, Needs

  Interview with Mark Schapiro, September 05, 2000.

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• Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

  Arlen Specter

  Cancer, Believe, Heart

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• Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

  Charles Stanley

  Pain, Disappointment, Father

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• A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

  Stendhal

  Love, Positive, Valentines Day

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Fire, Great Day

  Laurence Sterne (1817). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.515

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• A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

  James Thurber

  Wise, Wisdom, Make Sense

  James Thurber (1956). “Further fables for our time”

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• Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self, Way, Moral

  "Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads" by Desmond Tutu, Dennis Van Roekel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4561, Delphi Classics

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• I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Views, Paris, Honor

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• All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.

  Ellen G. White

  Soul, World, Riches

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III”, p.1722, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Engineering, Tools, Woe

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• Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Silence, Feelings, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.92, Booklassic

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• The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Confidence, Long, People

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree

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• Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Religious, Jesus, Christ

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• Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a question streams a wonderful fragrance.

  Robert Walser

  Beautiful, Facts, Wonderful

  Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Beautiful, Character, Depth

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.69, Dell

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• Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Running, Opportunity, Race

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