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Adequacy Quote by Paul Kurtz

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“A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.”

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The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes…

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Adequacy is sufficient.

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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

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The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems,…

Walter Kaufmann

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The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency.

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“Mere adequacy is never adequate.”

John Lanchester

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Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

Henry A. Kissinger

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