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• We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Language, Leafs

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• The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Mean, Abuse, May

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• I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?

  Carl Sagan

  Christian, Wise, Atheist

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• Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.

  Jacob Schiff

  Country, Credit, Panic

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• I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Fear, Expression

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

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• Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

  Donald Barthelme

  World, Response

  Donald Barthelme (2013). “Snow White”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Never Fear, Ready

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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  Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Political, Problem

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

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• I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country.

  Dan Quayle

  Country, Low Income, Politics

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• If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

  Jose Limon

  Dance, Art, Sweat

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• I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man should have a philosophy. For there are certain aspects of the relation between science and society that the scientist can appreciate better than anyone else, and if he does not insist on this significance no one else will, with the result that the relation of science to society will become warped, to the detriment of everybody.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• ... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.

  Wes Jackson

  Running, Long, Community

  Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry (2011). “Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson”, p.106, Counterpoint Press

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• Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.

  Elton Gallegly

  Boards, Needs, Use

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• Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Teaching, Responsibility, Preparation

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

  W. Eugene Smith

  Feelings, Depth, Use

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• When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

  Brennan Manning

  Dirty, Feet, Substitutes

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.124, NavPress

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• Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Powerful, Survival, Essentials

  Patricia Hill Collins (2002). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.257, Routledge

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• I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.

  Alan Turing

  Moving, Past, Support

  Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.450, Oxford University Press

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• It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bigger player in other member states. The ruling shows that in these cases it is essential that companies propose adequate remedies in order to guarantee sufficient competition from other firms.

  Neelie Kroes

  Player, Pay The Price, Order

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• The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using.

  Robert Solow

  Rights, Government, Land

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• One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, People, Personality

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• If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

  Lou Holtz

  Explanation, Havens, Ifs

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• Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Frustration, Important

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this time that the Rothschilds were consolidating their new industrial holdings in the United States through their agent, August Belmont. Derek Wilson tells us: "They owned or had major shareholdings in Central American ironworks, North American canal construction companies, and a multiplicity of other concerns. They became the major importers of bullion from the newly discovered goldfields".

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, August, United States

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• If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Funny, Children, Rights

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.95, Transaction Publishers

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