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• The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Brain, Religion, Lame

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

  Riane Eisler

  Long, People, Care

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• I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

  Dan Maffei

  Support, Important, Program

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• The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

  Janet Burroway

  Writing, Wonderful, Should

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• Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Fall, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.330

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• If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

  Samuel Johnson

  Punishment, Vices, Misery

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.267

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• Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

  Ralph Allen

  Stars, Occupation, Shooting

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• The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.

  Alan Tower Waterman

  Teaching, Men, Numbers

  "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.

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• The consumer is getting fed up with shoddy material, poor quality, unsafe products, bad service, weak warranties, lack of adequate information -- the whole gamut of such problems.

  Virginia Knauer

  Poor Quality, Information, Problem

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• So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.

  Arianna Huffington

  Discovery, Self, Long

  Arianna Huffington (2006). “On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty.

  Edward Gibbon

  Horse, Numbers, History

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.239

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• We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Empathy, Flow

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• Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Order, Two, People

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Real, School

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• I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo

  Robert Solow

  Zoos, Reading, Blood

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• I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

  John Landgraf

  Home, Thinking, Self

  Source: collider.com

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• There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have been irradiatedas to affect other parts of the psychic organism--at the least the affections and the social feelings--it is not yet sexual love. Lust, the specific sexual impulse, is indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men. But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into the exquisite and enthralling flower of love.

  Havelock Ellis

  Love, Flower, Men

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “Sex in Relation to Society: Studies in The Psychology of Sex”, p.86, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Punishment, Nuclear

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Remorse is cureless--the Disease
  Not even God--can heal--
  For 'tis His institution--and
  The Adequate of Hell

  Emily Dickinson

  Disease, Hell, Institutions

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.735, Harvard University Press

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• I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Believe, Men, Order

  KONRAD LORENZ (1963). “ON AGRESSION”

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• A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.

  Cullen Hightower

  Wages, Pay, Appreciated

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• Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Beautiful, Work, Home

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• It is our argument that a sufficiently low price can turn a security of mediocre quality into a sound investment opportunity - provided that the buyer is informed and experienced and he practices adequate diversification. For, if the price is low enough to create a substantial margin of safety, the security thereby meets our criterion of investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Opportunity, Practice, Safety

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• To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Numbers, Safety, Different

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• ... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and those who believe that nature is still and always will be one of the main (if not the main) sources of mathematical inspiration. The first group is identified as "pure mathematicians" (though "purist" would be more adequate) while the second is, with equal inadequacy, referred to as "applied".

  Mark Kac

  Believe, Inspiration, Groups

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