"And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States."
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"Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural."
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"For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable."
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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."
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"In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning."
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"I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces."
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"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character."
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"The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that."
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"Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd."
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"Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure."
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"It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things."
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"Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done."
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"Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell"
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"What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction."
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"As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor."
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"Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations."
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"The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent."
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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."
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"Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of."
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"I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country."
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