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  • Benjamin Whorf At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Bobby Scott Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Werner Herzog For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
    Werner Herzog
    German film director and actor (1942 - )
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  • Charles Dickens I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bob Barr It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Howard Taft 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.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Bertrand Russell There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Jonathan Raban 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.
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  • Bobby Scott These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Shuster We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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