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• Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.

  Lady Margaret Sackville

  Single Mom, Imagination, Suggestions

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• Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

  Dean Hawkes

  People, Worry, Decision

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• One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Education, Country, Learning

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

  Peter Block

  Children, Teaching, Learning

  Peter Block (2002). “The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• If the Lord is your shepherd, He is sufficient for all your needs.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Shepherds, Needs

  Tony Evans (2008). “Our God is Awesome: Encountering the Greatness of Our God”, p.75, Moody Publishers

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• I've discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence, make time. Whatever keeps me from prayer, solitude, and the Bible, however good it appears, is my enemy if I am to be God's devoted friend and follower.

  Tommy Barnett

  Prayer, Solitude, Enemy

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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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• If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

  David Deida

  Love, Art, Truth

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Happiness, Perfect, Want

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