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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.

John Dewey

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

George Eliot

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Louis Binstock

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

John Stuart Mill

Every time there's a royal visit it reminds Australians that our constitutional arrangements are unsatisfactory.

Alison Henry

It's rather impersonal and probably a bit unsatisfactory. You don't have this sort of atmosphere and this sort of exchange that you get when you're in a club.

Jennifer Pratt

It has been a long wait and at last we seemed to have an outcome for the commuters on this line. What we needed was a clear way forward; this is very unsatisfactory.

Anthony Smith

Cell phones enabled people to connect when they were out and about. But those data connections are so unsatisfactory that it wasn't useful in practical terms.

Jeremy James

We have experienced unsatisfactory financial performance with our commercial airplane operations, ... Our expectations are that commercial airplane operations produce significant, double-digit operating margins.

Phil Condit

PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily conceived. Melsius believed them to have inhabited 'the Void' and to have been something intermediate between fishes and birds. Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.

Ambrose Bierce

I think it was somewhat unsatisfactory.

Betty Keller

The negative economic trends were reflected in the group's operating results, which were unsatisfactory throughout the entire year.

Leif Johansson

They would like us to give (districts) some guidance (that) is reasonable. I think it would be reasonable for us to say, 'You should be cautious in promoting students who score unsatisfactory in English and math.'

Scott Norton

Unsatisfactory and detrimental to the success of the team.

Jennifer Harris

NEGRO, n. The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: 'Let n = the white man.' This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution.

Ambrose Bierce

The key question is what triggered the hospitalization. Was it the unsatisfactory end of a relationship with her boyfriend? The defense could argue that [the victim] acts irrationally and destructively when she experiences the unsatisfactory end of a relationship with a man.

Craig Silverman

We opened it to all groups. We told them they can have any message they want as long as it is pro-animal. We wanted to bring attention to the still unsatisfactory conditions inside the shelter.

John Bachman