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  • When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

    Attributed to Emile Durkheim in "Readings in Renewing American Civilization" edited by Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Albert Stephen Hanser (p. 54), 1993.
  • The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit.

    Errors   Evil   Soul  
    Moses Maimonides (1919). “The Guide for the Perplexed”
  • A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.

    Data   Battle   Cry  
  • Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.

    Believe   Long   Taught  
  • 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.

    Stupid   Law   Community  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

    Mean   Goal   Political  
  • Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation.

  • If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

    FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 28, 2015
  • We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'

    Grace   Cry   Checks  
  • Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.

    Chris Argyris, Donald A. Schön (1978). “Organizational learning: a theory of action perspective”, Addison-Wesley
  • Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

    Change   Autism   Gold  
    Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press
  • [Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

    Data   Temptation   Form  
    Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.852, Wordsworth Editions
  • 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.

    Play   Failing   Draws  
    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

    Color   America   People  
    I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
  • An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain amounts of calcium that are above the treshold for meeting your nutritional needs....In fact,calcium deficiency caused by an insufficient amount if calcium in the diet is not known to occur in humans.

  • 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.

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

  • In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

    I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
  • And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

    Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company
  • In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

  • Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

  • Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1817, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

  • Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.

  • Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

    Real   War   Assault  
  • Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!

    Use   Talent   Situation  
  • Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits, to unravel all difficulties. What if it were suggested that the brick-built Pyramid of Hawara had been laid brick by brick by a single workman? Given time, this would not be beyond the bounds of possibility. But Nature, like the Pharaohs, had greater forces at her command to do the work better and more expeditiously than is admitted by Uniformitarians.

    Nature   Science   Keys  
  • I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

    "Russell Crowe gives EW a piece of his "Mind". Interview with Benjamin Svetkey, ew.com. January 4, 2002.
  • A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

  • The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

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