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• If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add weapons of mass destruction to this diabolical clockwork, and you have . . . a recipe for the fall of civilization.

  Sam Harris

  Fall, Mass Destruction, Civilization

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

  John Simon

  Funny, Flying, Bricks

  "Michael Billington on actors" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2012.

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• Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Support, Wages, Wells

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• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  Jack McDevitt

  Decision, Information, Made

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.

  Dion Fortune

  Lying, Rights, Opposites

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• There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

  Isaac Asimov

  Meaningful, Data, Answers

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

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• In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

  Radhanath Swami

  Life Is Short, Duration, Kali

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• The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.

  Paul Yingling

  Military, Two, Iraq

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• I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

  Joel Stein

  Kids, Wish, Painful Moments

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.

  Bob Frank

  Simple, Two, Invisible Hand

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants are stupid or lack taste. Rather, the problem is that any individual merchant's sign won't be noticed unless it's bigger and more garish than those of rival merchants.

  Bob Frank

  Stupid, Law, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.

  James Dale Davidson

  America, Gold, Saving

  James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg (1991). “The great reckoning: how the world will change in the depression of the 1990s”

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• We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient too. If people who are willing to put time into demonstrations also prove willing to work on behalf of candidates in local elections - or to become candidates themselves - they will achieve far more. If all of this upheaval provokes more involvement, then we have a slim chance of ending up with more vibrant democracies eventually. The alternative, as you've hinted, is that democracy fails altogether.

  Anne Applebaum

  People, Leader, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Demand, Too Much, Facts

  "The New Industrial State". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XXII, Section 4, p. 255, 1967.

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• With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

  Carl Sagan

  Data, Easy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.118, Ballantine Books

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• Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.

  Annie Leonard

  Needs, Stories, Information

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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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• As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

  Marty Nemko

  Play, Failing, Draws

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That is a major change.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Majority, Minorities, Matter

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

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• I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are greed, hatred and delusion. Well, delusion is not much mentioned in the Christian tradition. In the West, we have underplayed the idea that our moral and spiritual troubles have to do with a lack of clarity or insight because original sin has dominated so much of our thinking. We tend to think that our troubles are caused by insufficient will power.

  Ninian Smart

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

  Danny Glover

  War, People, Police

  Source: progressive.org

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• Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

  Alan Bersin

  Wall, Barriers, Security

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must locate the point of activity, the places and forms in which its domination is exercised. And because this domination is not simply the expression in political terms of economic exploitation, it is its instrument and, to a large extent, the condition which makes it possible; the suppression of the one is achieved through the exhaustive discernment of the other.

  Michel Foucault

  Government, Expression, Class

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cages, Restriction, Results

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• And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind of a linguistic construct. It is more in the nature of a sentence, or a novel, or a work of art than it is in the nature of these machine models of interlocking law that we inherit out of a thousand years of rational reductionism.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Believe, Space

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