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• Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, World

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• It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

  Anthony Doerr

  Language

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Cutting, Two

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

  Marianne Williamson

  Greatest Fear, Fabulous, Brilliant

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of 'A Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, Ch. 7, Section 3, 1992.

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• There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Rama, Lists

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• We don't really listen to what the other person is saying. We have gotten used to information being in such a concentrated form all the time, and so continuously, that conversation somehow seems inadequate for a lot of people, and therefore they can't join in it. You notice how many people can't argue anymore - without getting very upset.

  John Gimlette

  People, Upset, Information

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is probably not revivable. If the religion of the future depends on keeping alive the definitions of theism, then the human phenomenon that we call religion will have come to an end. If Christianity depends on a theistic definition of God, then we must face the fact that we are watching this noble religious system enter the rigor mortis of its own death throes.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Rigor Mortis, Dying

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• The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.

  Craig Stadler

  Children, Golf, Games

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• Psalm 34 says, 'Those who trust in the Lord will never lack any good thing.' This means if you don't have it right now, you don't need it right now.
  Our attitude should be, 'I'm equipped, empowered and anointed for this moment. I am not lacking, shortchanged or inadequate. I have what I need for today.'

  Joel Osteen

  Attitude, Mean, Needs

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• Attack anything that makes you feel unworthy, inadequate, hopeless, powerless and useless. That is the evidence of the enemy. All those things need to be attacked with joy, with peace, with love and grace, with mercy, with kindness and the goodness of God.

  Graham Cooke

  Kindness, Joy, Grace

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Jul 05, 2011

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• I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mother, Religious, Mean

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• At this writing I can't even shut my lower jaw because of inadequate health care. I can't chew my food, I have trouble walking...the list goes on. But more than anything I want to go home. If you follow the laws at the time of my conviction I should have been released already.

  Leonard Peltier

  Home, Writing, Law

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I have to say what I do is not easy and there are definitely moments where I feel inadequate to the tasks I've set for myself. And that's hard to feel - like you're giving your life to something and you can't really do it as well as you want to do it.

  Joan Osborne

  Giving, Tasks, Want

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• I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.

  Barack Obama

  Reflection, Government, Perfect

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• Inadequate nutrition can lead to terrible health consequences, both physical and emotional.

  Vicki Escarra

  Emotional, Nutrition, Terrible

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• When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.

  Harvey Gantt

  Struggle, Hands, Care

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• continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Years, Perfect

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• I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  Agnes Repplier

  Learning, Personality, Twenties

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• The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

  Barbara Holland

  Humble, Self, Ego

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

  Harriet Lerner

  Motherhood, Feelings, Hazards

  "Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life". Book by Harriet Goldhor Lerner, 1996.

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• If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mistake, Responsibility, Fighting

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• The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Mean, Men

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• Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Self, Effort, Together

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

  Beth Revis

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

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• In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Numbers, Confusion

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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