Adequately Quotes
159 quotes by 143 authors
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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately…
— William J. Clinton
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It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution to the fabric…
— William J. Clinton
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Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they…
— Carl Sagan
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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary…
— Oswald Avery
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Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can…
— Jurgen Habermas
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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
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Beware of clichés. Not just the Âclichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are…
— Geoff Dyer
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried…
— Michel de Montaigne
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For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent…
— James Frey
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Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a…
— Arthur Compton
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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…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed…
— Pope John XXIII
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The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In…
— Bruce Lee
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Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to…
— B.F. Skinner
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I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is…
— Jimmy Carter
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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people…
— Wangari Maathai
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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