A Quote by Abraham Joshua Heschel

The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Polish - Philosopher
January 11, 1907 - December 23, 1972

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C. J. Mahaney

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That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

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Christopher Hitchens

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Eliot Sumner

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Evelyn Waugh

The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

Confucius

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Mark Levin

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

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There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.

Marc Maron

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I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

Raymond Kelly

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

Harold S. Kushner

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.