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228 Inadequate quotes by 198 unique authors
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Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
— Haim Ginott
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Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate…
— Brian Greene
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Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
— Stanislav Grof
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There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the…
— Harry Connick, Jr.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
— Larry David
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the…
— Richard P. Feynman
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our…
— Christopher Hampton
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Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate…
— Herman Kahn
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When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
— Alicia Keys
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
— John Lydon
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs,…
— Abraham Maslow
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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of…
— Wilson Mizner
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If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just…
— Janet Napolitano
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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the…
— Adrienne Rich
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As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved…
— Arlen Specter
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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…
— Marianne Williamson
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Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
— Ron Wyden
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Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's…
— Helen Fisher
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
— Sylvia Plath
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I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding…
— J D Salinger
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The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I…
— Sam Harris
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I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless…
— Sylvia Plath
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