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• The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

  Dana Spiotta

  Inspirational, Issues, Choices

  Dana Spiotta (2012). “Stone Arabia”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.

  Steve Aylett

  Genius, Snipers

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• Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them.

  Steven Heighton

  Writing, Luck, May

  "Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing". Book by Steven Heighton, 2011.

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• Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

  J. A. Jance

  Mother, Children, Crazy

  J. A. Jance (2009). “Outlaw Mountain: A Joanna Brady Mystery”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten.

  Ivan Vladislavic

  Ice, Sea, Perception

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• I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.

  Mark Lawrence

  Growing Up, Thinking, Dawn

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.216, Penguin

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• Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

  Will Thomas

  Doe, Answers, Rooms

  Will Thomas (2004). “Some Danger Involved: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here.

  Jim Benton

  Teacher, Jobs, Home

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• When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money.

  W. Allen Wallis

  Retirement, Benefits, Pay

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• You are enough. You are so enough, it is unbelievable how enough you are.

  Sierra Boggess

  Unbelievable

  Twitter post from Jul 15, 2016

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• It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

  Floyd Abrams

  Rights, People, Not Good Enough

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. une 15, 2005.

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• The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance.

  T. H. Watkins

  Nature, Land, Water

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• This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach, the losing touch of self to self, contented more or less and known not nearly well enough.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Self, Long, Return

  Christopher Cokinos (2013). “Bodies, of the Holocene”, p.16, Truman State University Press

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• But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.

  Helen Simonson

  Heart, Together, Watches

  Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.380, A&C Black

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• You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

  Sara Genn

  Needs, Paint, Assurance

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• No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.

  Grant Cardone

  Inspirational, Goal, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2017

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• I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me.

  Niall Horan

  Thinking, Flying, Pigeons

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• The golden moment when I’m not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget.

  Sonya Sones

  Golden Moments, Remember, Forget

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• Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.

  Jon Foreman

  Teaching, Voice, Desert

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• Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

  Jon Foreman

  Games, Play, Enough Time

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• We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.

  Harold Bloom

  Space, People, Sorrow

  Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hands, Challenges, Brain

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• Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Heart, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on the Parables”

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• His Name will never fall. His Name will never be defeated. His Name will never be reduced to rubble. A tower that’s stronger than any man-made fortress and large enough to see from a distance, even if we’ve lost our way.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Distance, Fall, Men

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• The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

  Billy Sunday

  Men, Joy, Religion

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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