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  • All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

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  • Bill Hybels Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Babe Paley 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.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Walter Benjamin The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Christopher Hampton 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 belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Arlen Specter 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 inadequate.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow 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, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Andrew Matthews Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Eric Butterworth Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Betty Friedan Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • John Adams Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Marianne Williamson 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.
    A Return To Love
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln 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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
    Second State of the Union address (1862)
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The role of determination is to limit the agonies of doubt and the perils of hesitation when the motives for action are inadequate.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Adrienne Rich 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
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Ansel Adams When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Walter Benjamin All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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