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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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• 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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• 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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• The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Taken, Believe

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• I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

  Diablo Cody

  Trying, Bed, Bottles

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• Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Independence

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Arms and the Covenant”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.

  Walter Isaacson

  Focus, Microsoft, Want

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Garden, Blessing, Two

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

  Suze Orman

  Jobs, Eight, Focus

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• One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Maturity, Years, Accomplishment

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• Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

  R. D. Laing

  Needs, Fiction, Demand

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

  John Perkins

  Education, War, Food

  John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Levels, Film

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• The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless. And also it's insulting. It's implying that the work is not an adequate account of itself. To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

  Jonathan Santlofer

  Artist, Talking, Insulting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt

  Susan Mallery

  Waiting, Bed, T Shirt

  Susan Mallery (2012). “Under Her Skin”, p.104, Harlequin

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• The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Fate, Men

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 8: "The Monsters", p. 120, 1970.

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• You're just jealous." "Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable.

  Jennifer Estep

  Jealous, Done

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• Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Divorce, May, Sexuality

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.146, Routledge

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• The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Generosity, Healthy, Needs

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• There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it.

  Megan Hart

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• Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word. "Adequate?" He took my hand, placed it on the part in question. It immediately began to stir. He moved my hand on it, and I obligingly circled it with my fingers. "This is adequate?" "Maybe I should have said it's a gracious plenty?" "A gracious plenty. I like that," he said.

  Charlaine Harris

  Hands, Should Have, Faces

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.869, Penguin

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• Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Gun, Thinking

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• The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Years, Strange, Life Is

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

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• Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.

  Bertrand Russell

  Intellectual, Progress, Opinion

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I am not a Christian, and other essays on religion and related subjects”, Touchstone

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• For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such forms and institutions have been particular expressions, adequate for a specific period of time and in a specific geographical area.

  Julius Evola

  Past, Expression, Faithful

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