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• Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.

  Leo Strauss

  Past, Views, Understanding

  Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Fall, Thinking

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Nature, Men, Knowing

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• What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.

  Paul Krugman

  War, Needs, World

  "Franklin Delano Obama?". www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even the global downturn and climate change. Diseases like AIDS, TB and malaria cannot be tackled without adequate resources. So you see everything is connected. In order to address any major cause of human suffering, we have to work together across many fronts.

  Desmond Tutu

  Order, Competition, Suffering

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Queens, Firsts, Praise

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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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

  Education, Antithesis, Liberal Education

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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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

  United States, Judgment, Should

  "Justice Ginsburg's Dissent". www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2000.

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• By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Destiny, Young Generation

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf”, p.800, Adolf Hitler

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• Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything, partial 'solutions' serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes.

  Murray Bookchin

  Character, Understanding, Depth

  "The Ecology of Freedom". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1982.

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• I owe a quenchless debt to him who bade me seize my fate And hang it on the faith that I to it was adequate For when he said -you're on your own- and sauntered on away I knew that here, in four short words, was youth-s first judgment day Not wit to learn, not test of skill, not pride to satisfy, But will to walk down life in faith that life is theirs who try.

  Gill Robb Wilson

  Fate, Pride, Skills

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