Inadequate Quotes
228 quotes by 203 authors
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
— John Adams
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Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
— Scott Adams
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
— Walter Benjamin
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
— Bertolt Brecht
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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…
— Margaret Chan
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
— Jane Addams
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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
— Ben Crenshaw
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One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.
— Sun Tzu
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There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is…
— Rajneesh
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Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate…
— Michael Lewis
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A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical…
— Herbert Spencer Jennings
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The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels…
— Arthur Compton
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our…
— Nelson Mandela
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How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal…
— Piero Ferrucci
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The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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