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“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”

Art Book Reason Literature Simple Sufficient Isolated Entity Axes Narration

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.”

Ifs Humility Needed Harm Sufficient Prudence Giver Philanthropic

Author:Marvin Olasky

“We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.”

People Ifs Said Whole Body Humanity Social Justice Loss Crime Honor Injustice Accepted Sufficient Contracts Dishonor Pact Social Contract Dishonorable

Author:Charles Peguy

“There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in known chemistry for the belief that long sequences of reactions can organize spontaneously -- and every reason to believe that they cannot. The problem of achieving sufficient specificity, whether in aqueous solution or on the surface of a mineral, is so severe that the chance of closing a cycle of reactions as complex as the reverse citric acid cycle, for example, is negligible.”

“May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air.”

“Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.”

Should Book Cities Proud Should Have Vote Raised Library Sufficient Seattle

Author:Jonathan Raban

“They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.”

Men Mind Humans May Literature All Things Sufficient Human Mind Closeness Perversity

Author:Anthony Trollope

“What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.”

Needs Giving Prayer Answers Sufficient Our Prayers

Book:A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk

Source: A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk

“I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”

Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

“A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.”

“With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would give a comfortable living and sufficient leisure, in order to sacrifice to my gods [mathematical research]. For example, I hope to get the editting of the census, the birth and death lists in local districts, not as a job, but for my pleasure and satisfaction.”

“Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?”

Source: The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education

“My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.”

Ifs Way Writing Mind Wells Has Beens I Can Reading Lays Casts Best Way Sufficient Iron Jars

Book:Walt Whitman's Camden conversations

Source: Walt Whitman's Camden conversations

“Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.”

People Thinking Way Has Beens Self Hands Lost Generations Becoming Sufficient Literacy Manuals Our Generation Younger Generation Self Sufficient

Author:Tim Ferriss

“A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.”

Ifs World Enough Motivational Would Be Powerful Encouragement Realization Sufficient Most Powerful Great Love True Love Conquers All Enough Love Love And Healing Powerful Love

Book:Power Through Constructive Thinking

Source: Power Through Constructive Thinking

“Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.”

Ifs Soul Body Passion Training Absolutes Sufficient Acquire Mastery Employed Ingenuity

Author:Rene Descartes

“I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.”

Thinking Actors Voice Circumstances Singers Sufficient

Author:Gregory Harrison

“The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.”

Humans Facts Courses Human Beings Simple Conditions Murder Sufficient Being Human

Author:Jeffrey Kluger