Adequate Quotes - Page 13

• The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off - it just gives up, resets itself to zero.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Zero, Giving Up, Grief

  Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.278, Penguin

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• When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Arriving, Noble

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.165

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• The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Nhs, Principles, Safe

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Order, Helping

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Life and work are not things apart. Work is more than gaining privileges and possessions; it is ongoing, ecstatic, LIVING experience. When we tap into living experience, we no longer feel as though we must be king. We can just be ALIVE at work! When we live in the bliss, there is no difficulty which is insurmountable. If we miss the bliss, there is no compensation which is adequate.

  Laurence Boldt

  Kings, Missing, Ongoing

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• Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dream, Children, School

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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• People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.

  Albert Bandura

  Exercise, People, Effort

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• The more 'adequate' we make relief, the more people we are going to find willing to get on it and stay on it indefinitely. The more we try to make sure that everybody really in need of relief gets it, the more certain we can be that we are also giving it to people who neither need nor deserve it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  People, Giving, Trying

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Religious, Military, War

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• The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Bankers, Culture

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• When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.

  John Eldredge

  Fun, Winter, Boys

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Goal, Training

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• It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish

  George Jackson

  Believe, Men, Preparation

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• Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

  Bobby Scott

  Issues, Years, Significant

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• There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money.

  Mervyn King

  People, Pay, Reason

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• Yet the widespread planetary theories, advanced by Ptolemy and most other astronomers, although consistent with the numerical data, seemed likewise to present no small difficulty. For these theories were not adequate unless they also conceived certain equalizing circles, which made the planet appear to move at all times with uniform velocity neither on its deferent sphere nor about its own epicycle's center.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Moving, Science, Data

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• If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.

  Amory Lovins

  Giving, Environmental, Energy

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• I like to travel business or first class. I wouldn't go out of my way to pay through the nose if the particular airline had a perfectly adequate economy class - but I do like to be comfortable when traveling.

  Hilary Devey

  Class, Noses, Pay

  "Hilary Devey: Interview with the new Dragon". Interview with Kate Bassett, realbusiness.co.uk. July 28, 2011.

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• It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Philosophy, Causes, Vain

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• I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

  Barry Sanders

  School, Full Potential, Students

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• Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.

  Daphne Oz

  Resilience, Needs, Nutrition

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• In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Tasks, Study

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.304, China Books

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• Thyroid secretions in adequate amounts appear to be essential for development of the egg and for proper ovarian secretions. If thyroid function is low, an egg may be discharged from an ovary but it may not be fertilizable or, if fertilized, may not be capable of nesting so that pregnancy is quickly aborted.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Pregnancy, Pms, Eggs

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• It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Home, School

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

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• (Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Block, Dark

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