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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -- Unknown
I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe. -- Louis Farrakhan
I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well. -- Amy Winehouse
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. -- Jean Piaget
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed. -- Noel Coward
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. -- Margaret Spellings
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. -- Ron Lewis
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that. -- Bill Gates
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy. -- Jay Griffiths
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. -- Arne Duncan
I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. -- Steven Chu
Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work. -- Thomas S. Monson
I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met. -- Bill Lipinski
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published. -- James Gunn
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. -- Edward Sapir
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross? -- Saint Bernard
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. -- Michel de Montaigne
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger. -- Tom Colicchio
I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself. -- Rudy Giuliani
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. -- Anthony Trollope
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. -- John Wesley Powell
To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices. -- Bjorn Lomborg
The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards, and truly measuring student performance just makes sense. The only real debate about the law was and is whether or not it was adequately funded. -- Mark McKinnon
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach. -- Gaston Bachelard
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -- Unknown
The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing. -- Ben Bernanke
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. -- Remy de Gourmont
One should be able to teach adequately and feel good about it. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
If you're not worth speaking on, then you haven't adequately done your job. -- T.I.
Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system. -- Yvette Clarke
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words. -- Henri Bergson
You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping. -- Warren Buffett
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. -- Evan Parker
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality." -- Jean Piaget
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words -- Brennan Manning
The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can. -- James Fitzjames Stephen
There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures. -- Warren Buffett
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? -- Kate Morton
It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. -- John Dewey
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert A. Heinlein
When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell. -- Edwin Lefevre
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian. -- Michael Joseph Brown
The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar. -- Henry Miller
Not a single, substantial, commercially-successful product had come from an adequately-finded team. They'd always come from the scrounging, scrapping, underfunded teams. -- Ken Olsen
Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence. -- Nhat Hanh
No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard. -- Ruth Minshull
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. -- Benjamin Disraeli
In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God. -- Vincent de Paul
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. -- Philip Pullman
It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast. -- John Gielgud
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage. -- Bertrand Russell
My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera. -- Yousuf Karsh
The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English. -- Paul Clitheroe
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. -- Alan Watts
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life. -- John Hines
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. -- Alan Perlis
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life. -- John Hines
Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom. -- Ludwig von Mises
Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically. -- Rick Renzi
The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues. -- Paul Gillmor
I don't think I can adequately express my feelings about the car on national radio, but hopefully we'll get better and I'll be happier later onâ?¦ -- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance. -- Ken Wilber
...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven. -- James Lee Burke
Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy. -- Edmund Phelps
A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central vital Christian teaching whatsoever. -- Albert Mohler
We are far from the so called 'end of history,' since the conditions for a sustainable and peaceful development have not yet been adequately articulated and realized. -- Pope Francis
As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves. -- Claude Nicollier
A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points ofits own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be asocial disease of a most destructive nature. -- S.M. Sigerson
No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality. -- Burnett Hillman Streeter
Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all. -- Herbert Spencer
If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately. -- Ralph Regula
Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to. -- Ramsey Clark
I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately. -- Arnold Bennett
In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system's failure to adequately provide a realistic financial education program for students. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World. -- Benjamin E. Mays
None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives. -- Garth Greenwell
My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly. -- John Hope Franklin
I find it difficult to say, like "which child do you prefer the most", and its a sort of surface choice. I've never known how to quite answer that one adequately. -- John Hurt
I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to. -- Cecily McMillan
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. -- Henry James
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave -- Bertrand Russell
I truly believe that as a novelist, you cannot adequately describe the weather in England - the light, the dampness, the bitterness, the summer softness, and so on - without having experienced it. -- Stephanie Laurens
Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with the Truth, but you cannot adequately explain it. -- Ilchi Lee
A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand. -- Jon Foreman
The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result. -- Viet D. Dinh
There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed. -- Michael Leunig
Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither. -- Jack Reed
Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly existence. No price tag can adequately reflect its value. -- Charles R. Swindoll
But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved. -- Patricia Hewitt
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices. -- Thomas Aquinas
I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange. This number, as I see it, is aimed mostly at politicians and journalists. -- Craig F. Bohren
A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed. -- Margaret Fuller
When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family. -- Lance Loud
No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising. -- Hilary Kornblith

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