Adequately Quotes

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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
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
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
Beware of clichÃ©s. Not just the ÂclichÃ©s that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichÃ©s of response as well as expression. There are… — Geoff Dyer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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