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• Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

  Nam June Paik

  Technology, Reality, Skins

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• The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Golf, Games, Feels

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• Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fear, Struggle, Men

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.119, Princeton University Press

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• There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Shrinking, Enlightening

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

  John Adams

  Religious, Revenge, Passion

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human beingI want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice, you know I'm a prolific practicer, I still practice every dayYou have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you're playing, that's when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days but you want to get to this place where they exist.

  Sonny Rollins

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Real

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• How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.

  Erwin McManus

  Christian, Unique, Focus

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2011). “Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within”, p.65, Thomas Nelson

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• The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately inadequate. And it tells us that for a family to need help--or at least to admit it publicly--is to confess failure. Similarly, to give help, however generously, is to acknowledge the inadequacy of the recipients and indirectly to condemn them, to stigmatize them, and even to weaken what impulse they have toward self-sufficiency.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Self, Giving, Needs

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• I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a feeling of superiority on one side and inferiority on the other, and that's a form of slow poison. As I see it, men wouldn't want somebody inferior to them unless they felt inadequate themselves. They're intimidated by a mature woman.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Feelings, Sides

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• My first reaction in pastoral care is not to explain. And again, I don't think the primary purpose of the Bible is to explain suffering. I never have, because the actual explanations are often inadequate. I think the primary purpose of Scripture is to say I am all you need in this suffering and I need comfort.

  Rick Warren

  Thinking, Suffering, Comfort

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Evil, Failing, Our Relationship

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• If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".

  Catherine Marshall

  Heart, Doors, Trying

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• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  Gary Zukav

  Humble, Soul, Perception

  "Gary Zukav: How to Fall in Love with the Whole World" by Gary Zukav, www.oprah.com. March 24, 2013.

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• You're wrong means that I don't understand you, I'm not seeing what you're seeing- and I'm not seeing all of you there is to see. But there is nothing wrong with you. You are what you need to be, doing what you need to be doing, and although I may take steps to protect myself of others, I do not know all and therefore am literally inadequate to judge.

  Hugh Prather

  Mean, Judging, Steps

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• July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

  Mark Twain

  Country, 4th Of July, Years

  Pudd'nhead Wilson Chapter XVII (p. 164)

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• People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, People, Unhappy

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2014). “The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones”, p.94, SPCK

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• Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gratitude, Generosity, Guilt

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• There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who are outraged at the slightest suggestion of a critical re-examination of the subject. The political pressure for constant extension and increase of these benefits is almost irresistible.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Political, Receiving

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.202, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Song, Want, Facts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.43, SCM Press

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• How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted, was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate, unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did.

  Jeet Thayil

  Stars, Lying, Men

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• There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to be accredited with the same opinions as his characters. Nor is it necessary or obligatory for him to believe in the tenet of his construction - all of which is a disclaimer to the notion that the author of Drowning by Numbers believes that all men are weak, enfeebled, loutish, boorish and generally inadequate and incompetent as partners for women. But it's a thought.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Character, Men

  "Fear Of Drowning By Numbers". Book by Peter Greenaway, 1991.

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• Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

  Jane Addams

  Cities, Numbers, Justice

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.164, Hayes Barton Press

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• We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results.

  Charlie Munger

  Loss, Years, Nuts

  Charlie Munger's comments on risk at the 2001 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. April 28, 2001.

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