"For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable."

-- Aristotle

#Adequate Quotes

“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.”
“Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.”

Source : "'Getting things right'". www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2008.
“Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.”
“Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.”
“Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.”
“I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon...”
“For life is a journey through a wilderness”

Source : Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.77, Penguin
“We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.”

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