- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enough Quotes
Knowing what's enough, and what isn't.
This collection of enough quotes touches on the gap between clever ideas and real-world application in technical research, and the frustration of not being able to work fast enough to keep up with demand. One entry recalls a lucky, extended research collaboration. Related reflections continue in our Enough Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.
- Bumper
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- Nov 07, 2020
A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.
- Laboratory
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- Nov 07, 2020