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• There is a groan that unites men and women, rich and poor, in any nation. These muscle pains are "explained" in every culture, but the universal fact of this persistence must mean that no adequate therapy exists.

  Patrick David Wall

  Pain, Mean, Persistence

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• This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Prayer, Spring

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• Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

  James Hillman

  Together, Plot, Needs

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• For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

  Aristotle

  Ifs

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

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• I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Inspirational, Success, Important

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• I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.

  James Dean

  Adequate Knowledge, Satanic, Force

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• The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Expression, Sides, Would Be

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Artist, Differences, Vision

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.195, Open Road Media

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• To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Self, Desire

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• For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

  Jane Byrne

  Cities, Work Out, Neighborhood

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• I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

  Ben Bernanke

  Thinking, Trying, Orthodoxy

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• All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

  Terry Eagleton

  Moving, Simple, Firsts

  "Against The Grain". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1986.

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• Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

  Bill Dixon

  Art, Tired, Years

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• For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

  Werner Herzog

  Memories, Civilization, Serious

  "Werner Herzog: ‘Film Is Not the Art of Scholars, But of Illiterates’". Interview with Leticia Kentsept, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 1977.

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• While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Doctors, Judging

  Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (2006). “The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art”, p.2, Yale University Press

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• It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

  Bob Barr

  Law, Challenges, Today

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• Remorse is cureless--the Disease
  Not even God--can heal--
  For 'tis His institution--and
  The Adequate of Hell

  Emily Dickinson

  Disease, Hell, Institutions

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.735, Harvard University Press

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• Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Real, School

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• Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Order, Two, People

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

  Riane Eisler

  Long, People, Care

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• I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

  Dan Maffei

  Support, Important, Program

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• The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

  Janet Burroway

  Writing, Wonderful, Should

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• If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

  Samuel Johnson

  Punishment, Vices, Misery

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.267

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• We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Empathy, Flow

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• The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.

  Alan Tower Waterman

  Teaching, Men, Numbers

  "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.

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