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Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries. -- Frank B. Kellogg
To live effectively is to live with adequate information. -- Norbert Wiener
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. -- Smedley Butler
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. -- Norman Borlaug
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. -- Norman Borlaug
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. -- Simone de Beauvoir
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. -- William Howard Taft
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. -- George Washington
The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this. -- Jon Corzine
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. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. -- Warren Buffett
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. -- Edmund Wilson
You're just jealous." "Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable. -- Jennifer Estep
Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell -- Emily Dickinson
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. -- Janet Burroway
Adequate early rest is best...."Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. -- Wilkie Collins
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. -- Margaret Fuller
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. -- Robert A. Heinlein
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. -- Gabriel Marcel
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. -- Bertrand Russell
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow. -- John Dewey
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. -- Edgard Varese
The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral. -- Alexander Hamilton
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
More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water. -- David Suzuki
Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads. -- Bobby Scott
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists. -- Ruth Benedict
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. -- Chester W. Nimitz
I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke. -- Diablo Cody
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. -- Gerald R. Ford
My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate. -- Yoenis Cespedes
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
A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor. -- Margaret Chan
A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all. -- George Lucas
If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards. -- Suze Orman
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
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right. -- Julia Child
Disappointment requires adequate planning. -- Richard Bandler
The natural object is always the adequate symbol. -- Ezra Pound
For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable. -- Aristotle
In social media marketing, average is no longer adequate. -- Jay Baer
I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces. -- James Dean
He asked me if I had adequate health insurance. -- Janet Evanovich
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time. -- Jessica Savitch
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition. -- Archibald Alexander Hodge
I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country. -- Dan Quayle
I never thought that much about my playing. I was adequate. -- Roy Buchanan
I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate. -- Billie Jean King
The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today. -- John C. Maxwell
Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world. -- Donald Barthelme
I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared -- Sheldon B. Kopp
No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training. -- Taiichi Ohno
With adequate planning, passion and perseverance, you can achieve the God-given goals. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate. -- Greg Koukl
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation. -- Stephen Jay Gould
If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate. -- Lou Holtz
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations. -- Edmund Burke
It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background. -- Pekka Vasala
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. -- Percy Williams Bridgman
Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution. -- Mary Kay Ash
There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes. -- Charlie Munger
Without an adequate answer to the question, "Why?" the price is always to high. -- Bobb Biehl
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack. -- George Wald
There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it. -- Megan Hart
Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment. -- Brendan Brazier
There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational. -- Rachel Cohn
Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. -- Kenneth L. Pike
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet. -- Brennan Manning
Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. -- Joyce Carol Oates
To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things... -- Muriel Barbery
No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies. -- Elizabeth Johnston
To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us. -- Dave Reichert
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. -- Max Lerner
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. -- Will Durant
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. -- Kenneth L. Pike
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. -- Benjamin Graham
For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. -- Margaret Sanger
I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one. -- C.P. Snow
I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate. -- Kevin Nealon
What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling? -- W. Eugene Smith
We are going to suspend the issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening cannot occur. -- Donald Trump
I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country. -- Rand Paul
Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires. -- Wesley L Duewel
An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person. -- Norman Cousins
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need. -- John Wilkins
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? -- Bette Greene
It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate -- Patricia Hill Collins
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. -- Grace Paley
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies. -- Noam Chomsky
Providing adequate representation even for defendants who appear guilty is the best way to protect those who are not. -- Deborah L. Rhode
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research. -- James R Newman
Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse -- Arnold J. Toynbee
A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created. -- Will Rogers
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. -- Henry David Thoreau
To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man. -- Bernard Iddings Bell
It may take you months or even a few years to build up an adequate emergency savings fund. That's okay. -- Suze Orman
He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false. -- Baruch Spinoza
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges. -- Bob Barr
(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group. -- Jimmy Carter
Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd. -- Bertrand Russell
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand. -- Benjamin Graham
I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer. -- John Tukey
At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods. -- Jane Byrne
There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color. -- Fannie Hurst
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. -- Samuel Johnson
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. -- Wyndham Lewis

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