#adequate

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. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#am #believe #besides #bores #coming

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. ↗

— Will Durant

#against #am #flame #hasty #i

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#against #chances #education #else #equipment

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#feel #images #imperfect #inadequate #look

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#because #captain #figured #first #haven

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#demoralizing #income #more #nothing #small

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory? ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#did #failure #help #inadequate #information

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#against #am #flame #hasty #i

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence. ↗

— John Strachan

#been #bishop #commanding #conception #eloquence

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

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks