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«Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.»
Author: Hans Margolius
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«The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.»
Author: James L. Christensen
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Christianity
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«There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
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adequate, American flag, closely, compulsion, expediency, flank, flanks, mom, on the side, presence of God, The Angels, the bar
«The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades. ...[T]hough I knew it existed, I still had no adequate idea of its extent, the depth of its penetration or the fierce vindictiveness of its revolutionary temper, which is a reflex of it struggle to keep and advance its political power.»
Author: Whittaker Chambers
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«The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
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«This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.»
«Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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adequate, adequate to, enlightened, enterprise, Labor Day, motive, proposes, proposing, selfishness, socialism, substitute
«There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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action, adequate, adequate to, arrant, creed, governmental, made, majorities, majority, no-nonsense, nonsense, There is no, vast, Vaster, vastest
«People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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abilities, adequate, adequate to, Eccentricities, eccentricity, fall into, People of, sphere, uncommon