Quotes with sufficiently

  • One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
  • Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
  • War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

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  • Arthur C. Clarke Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Aaron Allston Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Nikos Kazantzakis By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    Greek writer (1883 - 1957)
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  • Anish Kapoor Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Asa Gray I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Henry James I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Samuel Butler If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Anthony Trollope It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Socrates No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Robert Collier One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Edward Dahlberg One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Seneca That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Francis Bacon That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Asa Gray The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Aristotle The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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