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"When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again." »Confucius
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"If you believe in something, no proof is necessary. If you don't, none is sufficient." »Unknown
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"Their silence is sufficient praise." »Terence
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"Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it." »Unknown
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"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient." »William Shakespeare
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"If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living." »Leo Tolstoy
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"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." »Aristotle
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"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." »Stendhal
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"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." »Samuel Butler
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"The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not." »C. C. Colton
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"Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Criminal A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott
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"As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead." »Andre Norton
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"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott, Economist
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"For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief." »Fernandez de Andrada
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"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind." »Epictetus
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"Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott
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"Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage." »Babylonian Talmud
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"We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?" »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words." »Fran Lebowitz
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill
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"Reading by itself is certainly not sufficient to breed wistfulness; a natural-born peculiarity of wisdom ought to exist in one's very brain cells, and reflected on his very deep beliefs and thoughts.." »The wise Pharoah Moe
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"We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinner and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons." »John Newton
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions." »Edmund Burke
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"The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority." »Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939
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"A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. 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
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"I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented." »Roger King
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"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle." »Albert Einstein
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