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• I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Boredom, Free Will

  "God Emperor of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1981.

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• I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Wish, Age, Lessons

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• Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Perfect, Mind, Language

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• Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Feelings, Comfort, Needs

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• Although the church accomplishes many tasks, its only message to the world is the gospel of Christ. Everything else we do is merely an extension of that primary goal. The gospel we offer the lost is superior to every worldly philosophy. Never outdated or in need of correction, it is always sufficient to meet humanity's greatest need: reconciliation with the Creator.

  Charles Stanley

  Philosophy, Goal, Humanity

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• No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Justice, Democracy, Wages

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• But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Land, Judging

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• So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, Practice, Violence

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.

  Gary North

  Gun, Government, Promise

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• Jesus has thrilled and satisfied the heart and mind of the Father for eternity. He must be all-sufficient for you.

  Michael Reeves

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• The government - the ultimate short-term-oriented player - cannot withstand much pain in the economy or the financial markets. Bailouts and rescues are likely to occur, though not with sufficient predictability for investors to comfortably take advantage. The government will take enormous risks in such interventions, especially if the expenses can be conveniently deferred to the future. Some of the price-tag is in the form of back- stops and guarantees, whose cost is almost impossible to determine.

  Seth Klarman

  Pain, Player, Government

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• The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Scripture, Inspired, Holy

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• I'm dead in the water if I can't see the all sufficient glory of God.

  Louie Giglio

  Water, Glory, Ifs

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• It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Delay, Care, Nobody Cares

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• There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to reveal itself. The poems of first love are a case in point, and certainly such love is a sufficient stimulus.

  Otto Weininger

  Pain, First Love, Love Is

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.121, Рипол Классик

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• Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream . . . But we must go on or we will all go under. And the great criticism that can be made is that the world lacks a plan that will enable us to go on . . . We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace - which is rapidly becoming a universal necessity - into actuality.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Dream, War, Imagination

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• A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand men has sometimes been sufficient to destroy, in a single day, the work of ages.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loss, Men, Victory

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1695, Delphi Classics

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• I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.

  Irving Stone

  Book, Writing, Trying

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• We need to learn, practice, study, know, and understand how angels live with each other. When this community comes to the point to be perfectly honest and upright, you will never find a poor person; none will lack, all will have sufficient.

  Brigham Young

  Angel, Practice, Community

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Average, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• Perhaps the old fogies in the blogosphere get that way because, well, we stop taking the whole megillah so seriously. And we can't take it seriously because, well, this isn't our primary means of employment and never will be. Once the blogosphere is run by sufficient numbers of people who are paid to blog, us enlightened amateurs just look semi-pro.

  Daniel Drezner

  Running, Mean, Numbers

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• Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions aren't met, I can't outsource or partner with you because markets don't function in the absence of sufficient information.

  Clayton Christensen

  Taught Us, Information, Three

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Together we can make a difference and empower communities to be self sufficient.

  David Batstone

  Self, Together We Can, Differences

  Source: forums.juniper.net

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• Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Realization, Humans, Human Beings

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• I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Serving Others, Tire, Enough

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