Adequate Quotes - Page 15

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Literature, Ancient

Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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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

Groups, Computer, Advantage

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Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.

J. I. Packer

Heart, Faithful, Needs

J. I. Packer (2017). “Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.314, InterVarsity Press

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I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house rules may not have met other long-term residents who stay behind closed doors, or who only appear at night. An adequate theory of character must make room for character actors, for the stuntmen and animal handlers, for all the figures who play bit parts and produce unexpected acts. They often make the show fateful, or tragic, or farcically absurd.

James Hillman

Character, Night, Animal

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Lokpal Bill alone is not adequate to fight corruption. We need a comprehensive anti-corruption code in this country. The UPA Government has developed a powerful anti-corruption frame work consisting of eight new Central laws...... This is not about one Bill, this is about a frame work and we want to deliver that frame work to the country

Rahul Gandhi

Country, Powerful, Fighting

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One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.

George Washington

Kindness, Army, Soldier

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The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Art, Communication, Mean

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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

Mean, Benches, Legs

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Parents and leaders should give early help to the blase girl who is often overpainted and underdressed. She is the picture of an unhappy girl whose physical adornments, to her thinking, don't invite adequate attention. Heaven help the girl who gets the kind of attention she is seeking by being overpainted and underdressed! She will rue the day, of course, when she gets the kind of attention her flagrant invitation is giving.

Mark E. Petersen

Girl, Thinking, Giving

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As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.

Evelyn Underhill

Religious, Prayer, Feet

Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Worship”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

Robert M. Pirsig

Track, Motorcycle, Important

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Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Lying, Atmosphere, Foundation

B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.

Emma Bonino

Responsibility, Support, Groups

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To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

Bernard Iddings Bell

Artist, Men, Goal

Bernard Iddings Bell (1947). “A Man Can Live ...”

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The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm sure that it isn't man, money, surveys, not talk. They all have their place, but if the basis of all of it isn't fervent, believing prayer, they are in vain. And prayer should not only be the basis but it should permeate and vitalize the whole work.

William Cameron Townsend

Prayer, Believe, Men

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Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.

Mick Dodson

Education, Morning, Children

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Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International Energy Agency will it take? How many preventable catastrophes until our leaders realize that climate change will not be solved by nice speeches and empty promises? Countries like Canada and the U.S. have promised to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution and provide adequate financial support for developing countries, they have so far failed on both counts.

Steven Guilbeault

Country, Nice, Agency

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My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

Nel Noddings

Children, Educational, Believe

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An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

Benjamin Graham

Safety, Promise, Analysis

Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.35, Harper Collins

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I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that every citizen has adequate and affordable housing, we launch a crusade to make universal health care. We need not soldiers anymore in the world. We've had enough of them in western history.

James Lawson

Home, School, Soldier

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It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution doctrine rests, and the observational and laboratory evidence that bears on the problem of origins, he/she will conclude that there are substantial reasons for doubting the truth of this doctrine. Moreover, I believe that a scientifically sound creationist view of origins is not only possible, but it is to be preferred over the evolutionary one.

Dean H. Kenyon

Believe, Views, Doubt

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There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.

Wassily Kandinsky

Expression, Order, Analysis

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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.

Michelle Bachelet

Country, Empowerment, Employment

"UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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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

Simple, Execution, Death Penalty

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The health of a society is truly measured by the quality of its concern and care for the health of its members . . . The right of every individuals to adequate health care flows from the sanctity of human life and that dignity belongs to all human beings . . . We believe that health is a fundamental human right which has as its prerequisites social justice and equality and that it should be equally available and accessible to all.

Sadullah Khan

Believe, Justice, Quality

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