#sufficient

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#nothing #only #outlook #prove #sufficiently

The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements. ↗

— Gerd von Rundstedt

#air force #crossing #cut #danger #force

We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing. ↗

— Jimmy Sangster

#beginning #bring #build #create #creature

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

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#could #creative #death #discourage #ever

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered. ↗

— Franz Boas

#considered #contact #furthermore #history #influence

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. ↗

— Giovanni Boccaccio

#farmers #generally #hens #men #rooster

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. ↗

— Alexander John Ellis

#accurate #cent #nearest #practical #practical purposes

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

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#after #anything #be true #belief #believe