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• I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Men, Law, Numbers

  Los Angeles Times, January 09, 1972.

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• However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Experience, Safe

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• If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

  James Burgh

  Denial, May, Favour

  James Burgh (1767). “The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books ...”, p.38

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• Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Christian, Strong, Anxiety

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• God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

  John Nelson Darby

  Age, Church

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• Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  People, Justice, Effort

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• We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be associated with undoubted courage and unflinching integrity; at the same time there is no room for pride, self-sufficient pride, that rests solely upon its own capabilities, and refuses to look for the support and countenance of others.--MS 7:91 [MS is the Millenial Star]

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Stars, Integrity, Humility

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• To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Two, Use, May

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D". Book by James Boswell, 1791.

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• You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into motion. It is the body itself, of course, that produces growth; but it does so only during a sufficient rest period.

  Mike Mentzer

  Workout, Bad Ass, Growth

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• Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and into a hole which is of sufficient size to accomodate it by a good margin. Simple that is, provided there is no limit upon the time or the number of strokes required.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Simple, Numbers

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• You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

  Paul Brunton

  Acceptance, Grace, May

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture”, Larson Publication

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• The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by the limitation of port facilities made it impossible to get sufficient supplies to the armies when they approached the German border.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Fall, Army

  Speech to the Overseas Press Club, March 1, 1945.

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• If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Peace, War, Party

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• I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

  Robert Breault

  Garden, Gazing, Purpose

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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

  Wisdom, Nature, Science

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.221, Courier Corporation

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• Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.

  Robert Collier

  Men, Overwhelming Desire, Air

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• I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the hurt that I have caused you. Therefore, I want to ask for your forgiveness for my actions, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

  Marion Jones

  Hurt, Sorry, Pain

  Marion Jones (2010). “On the Right Track: From Olympic Downfall to Finding Forgiveness and the Strength to Overcome and Succeed”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Inspirational, Miracle, Faithful

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

  John Hay

  Flower, Rose, Break

  John Hay (1916). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay: Including Many Poems Now First Collected”

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• In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

  Cyril Connolly

  Emotional, Feelings, Unbearable

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• You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Confidence, Believe

  Dennis Kimbro, Napoleon Hill (2011). “Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice: A Guide to Success for Black Americans”, p.358, Fawcett

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• There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

  Ed Asner

  Food Banks, Ending Hunger, World

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• What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

  George Washington

  Summer, Marijuana, Hemp

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• For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, History

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Hate, Real

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