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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.


Aristotle


#certain #conditions #crises #danger #does

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.


Aristotle


#because #either #god #himself #live

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.


Rudolf Arnheim


#created #general #however #itself #man

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.


Elias Canetti


#cannot #difference #even #exact #failure

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.


Howard Carter


#before #entrance #evidence #here #intact

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.


John Cleese


#amount #become #began #driven #edgy

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?


John W. Foster


#book #books #economy #except #exclusively

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.


John Foxe


#condemnation #danger #deemed #defence #greater

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.


Leon Jouhaux


#itself #knowledge #lack #mature #mistook

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.


Allen Weinstein


#civic #concerns #democratic #dependence #education






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