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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
Government
Constitution
People
Made
Other
Our
Moral
Religious
Religious People
Only
Any
Inadequate
Wholly
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 Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson
Darkness
Fear
Light
Our
Powerful
Beyond
Most
Frighten
Inadequate
Us
Measure
Deepest
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 true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.
Helen Fisher
Jealous
Jealousy
People
Problem
Others
Symptom
Insecure
Scar
More
Tend
True
Feel
Demon
Overly
Than
Often
Childhood
Dependent
Regard
Psychological
Inadequate
Therapists
Who
Trauma
Why
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 occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln
History
Past
Think
Difficulty
Our
High
Must
Anew
Case
Rise
New
Occasion
Piled
Quiet
Stormy
Inadequate
Act
Present
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
Life
Death
Fear
Rather
Inadequate
Much
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams
Silence
Words
Focus
Become
Photographs
Shall
Unclear
Content
Inadequate
Images
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 forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sad
You
Memory
Past
Harmonious
Elude
Find
Remain
Sadder
Conception
Forever
Than
Again
Inadequate
Present
It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.
Jeannette Rankin
Government
Freedom
People
Opportunity
Feeling
Important
National
Sense
Every
Unity
Sides
Secured
Able
One-Sided
Come
Read
Does
Question
National Unity
Just
Information
Inadequate
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Life
Depression
Events
Political
Men
Community
Saw
Jobs
More
Economic
Could
Through
Students
Feel
Participate
Understand
How
Doing
Were
Affect
Began
Get
Often
Which
Inadequate
Them
Fully
Wholly
Lives
Deeply
Need
I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
Jack Canfield
People
Better
Feeling
Else
Nine
Ourselves
Out
Find
Somehow
Someone
Ten
More
Generally
No-One
Track
End
Up
Times
Than
Unhappiness
Inadequate
Themselves
Us
Who
Even
Compare
Compares
Comparison
Ever
Fast
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 old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
Adrienne Rich
Vision
Old
Language
Feeling
Every
Thinking
Resource
Our
Possess
Running
Remains
Still
Revolutionary
May
Process
Transformative
Inadequate
Might
Cycles
Technological
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot
Struggle
Strange
Words
Lover
Breath
Asthmatic
Must
Struggling
Like
Romantic
Inadequate
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 Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
Wilson Mizner
Anger
Degree
Long
Inevitable
Rule
Slight
Some
Conceived
Sinful
Occasions
Because
Becomes
Provocation
Scripture
Inadequate
The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
Gary Zukav
Love
Time
You
Yourself
Humble
Remember
Perception
Nothing
More
Only
Only Love
Higher
Individual
Individuals
Feel
Another
Souls
Unworthy
Than
Inferior
Person
Any
Experiences
Inadequate
Lower
Next
Lowering
Next Time
Connect
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 theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman
God
Good
Man
Struggle
Good And Evil
Evil
Edge
Lost
Stage
Seems
Uncertainty
Mystery
Scientific
Arranged
End
Impressive
Inadequate
Theory
Views
Deep
Appear
Awe
Watch
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
Ben Shahn
Photography
Own
My Own
Became
Interested
Inadequate
Sketching
Found
Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
Lynn Coady
Love
Time
Words
Eloquent
Easy
Seem
Inadequate
Clumsy
Expression
Flowers
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
Life
Death
Afraid
Inadequate
Much
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
Christian Dior
Important
Destroys
Detail
Outfit
Essential
Inadequate
Whole
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 thought.
Herman Kahn
Simple
Result
Perspective
Thought
Mistakes
Paradox
More
Failures
Due
Caused
Often
Decision-Making
Inadequate
Social
Aspects
Utility
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 12 years.
Janet Napolitano
Education
Today
School
Will
High
Kindergarten
High School
More
Students
Obsolete
Schooling
How
How Much
Years
American
Graduate
Just
Inadequate
Much
Now
Imagine
My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.
Amit Bhatia
Great
Thought
Father-In-Law
State
Athens
Indian
About
Something
Wrestling
Results
Had
Sport
Always
Discussing
Lack
Representation
Interest
Etc
Inadequate
Should
Event
Satisfactory
Started
Watching
Olympics
Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
Anna Deavere Smith
Day
Every Day
People
Every
Our
About
Vocabulary
Seems
More
More And More
Emotionally
Talk
Because
Afraid
Race
Inadequate
Many
Loaded
The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly predicted in economic theory - that trade would harm some people even while leaving society as a whole better off. The result was overpromised benefits and inadequate adjustment plans.
Arancha Gonzalez
Business
People
Benefits
Better
Result
Political
Some People
Think
Society
Enough
Heyday
Adjustment
Would
Some
About
Economic
Fact
Better Off
Economic Theory
Prospect
Globalization
Trade
Leaving
Off
Optimism
Did
Predicted
While
Inadequate
Plainly
Plans
Theory
Whole
Even
Elites
Harm
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 in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.
Brian Greene
Good
Religion
Science
People
Think
Universe
Addressing
Evolve
See
Particularly
Dealing
How
Answering
Questions
Very
Did
Form
Which
Inadequate
Meaning
Many
Why
There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
Charles Lindbergh
War
People
Enemy
Better
Nation
Preparation
Defeat
Way
Entering
Give
Divide
Road
Better Way
Over
Comfort
Foreign
Issue
Than
Inadequate
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