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• People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Fall, People

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• I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

  Edgard Varese

  Writing, Men, Want

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• No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Giving, Literature, Slavery

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.79

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• To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

  Norbert Wiener

  Information

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Two, Political

  George Washington (1836). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.301

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• If I listen long enough, the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Long, Enough

  "The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur".

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• Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

  Norman Borlaug

  Food, Civilization, Today

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• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Maturity, Years

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Nature, Self, Environmental

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• This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Philosophy, Men, World

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• A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Country, Future, Vision

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• Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

  William Howard Taft

  New Day, Effort, Presidential

  William Howard Taft, William Taft “Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils”, Transaction Publishers

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• There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Mother, Children, Dad

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

  David Suzuki

  People, Water, Clean

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• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Self, Eyebrows, Gold

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• Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

  Dave Reichert

  Priorities, Care, Medical

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• The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.

  Herbert Croly

  Swag, Democratic Ideals, Achievement

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Space, Risk, Chance

  "The Development of Operations Research as a Science". Operations Research, Volume 4, No. 3, pp. 265-295, www.jstor.org. June 1956.

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• The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.

  Jon Corzine

  Years, Flu Vaccine, Vaccines

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• Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Policy Making, Anxiety, Relief

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.162, Random House

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• The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

  Ruth Benedict

  Opposites, Humanity, Culture

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.470, Transaction Publishers

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• The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Data, Goal

  "On the Method of Theoretical Physics". The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford, June 10, 1933.

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• The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Ideas, Doctrine

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• Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

  Havelock Ellis

  Skills, Poison, Chance

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.15, Elsevier

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• Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

  Dan Lipinski

  Hero, Our Veterans, Firefighter

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