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Adequate Quotes

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

No objective, regardless of its size, can be accomplished without suitable preparation.
Authors on Adequate Quotes: Bertrand Russell Henry David Thoreau John Dewey Norman Borlaug Brendan Brazier Janet Evanovich Kevin Hart Werner Herzog Samuel Johnson John C. Maxwell Arnold J. Toynbee George Lucas Charles Dickens Richard Bandler Muriel Barbery Elizabeth Bowen Dan Quayle R. Buckminster Fuller Marshall B. Rosenberg Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Frank B. Kellogg David Suzuki Stephen Jay Gould Martin Luther King, Jr. Pekka Vasala William Westmoreland Norbert Wiener Bobb Biehl Harriet Ann Jacobs Lou Holtz Baruch Spinoza Scott Glenn Rand Paul
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All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural plan of the body and the system of behaviour of a species are parts of the same whole.... Wordsworth is right: there is only one being in possession of weapons which do not grow on his body and of whose working plan, therefore, the instincts of his species know nothing and in the usage of which he has no correspondingly adequate inhibition.
Konrad Lorenz

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Disappointment requires adequate planning.
Richard Bandler

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A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.
Russell L. Ackoff

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Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.
Stephen Jay Gould

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It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
Paul Farmer

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Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.
Jan Egeland

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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
Norman Borlaug

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Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse
Arnold J. Toynbee

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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
Edgard Varese

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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
Norman Borlaug

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

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It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills a place with dignity who is invited to it by his fellow citizens from the experience they have had of his adequate abilities.
Samuel Adams

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There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
D. Elton Trueblood

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When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.
Vivian Gornick

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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
Gabriel Marcel

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I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.
Joe Biden

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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
Baruch Spinoza

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Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
Bede Griffiths

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Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.
Warren Cuccurullo

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In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Edmund Wilson

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I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.
Bertrand Russell

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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

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To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
Norbert Wiener

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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
Chinua Achebe

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I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
John Tukey

30.
If I listen long enough, the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.
Mary Kay Ash

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There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.
George Santayana

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If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.
Greg Koukl

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The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.
Alfred North Whitehead

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Any church program, no matter how impressive, if it is not supported by an adequate prayer program, is little more than an ecclesiastical treadmill. It is doing little or no damage to Satan's kingdom.
Paul Billheimer

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Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
Archibald Alexander Hodge

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

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There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.
Charlie Munger

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My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.
Philip Warren Anderson

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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

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Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate health, but for the sake of its lasting effect upon the habits of the mind.
John Dewey

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Morelli beeped his truck unlocked. “If you’re looking for your rent-a-cop, I told Ranger you’d be with me this morning.” “Did he make you take a blood oath that you’d protect me?” “He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.
Janet Evanovich

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As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.
Richard Louv

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Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.
Frank B. Kellogg

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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
Elizabeth Bowen

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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
John Grisham

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It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.
Pekka Vasala

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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Wilkie Collins

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One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
Bertrand Russell

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Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.
Harry A. Blackmun

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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