Definition of Adapted

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Definition of Adapted
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Adapted Quotations

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Plato

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
Henry Miller

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Robert Benchley

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Samuel Butler

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
Edith Wharton

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
Nicholas Sparks

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
Martin Van Buren

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
Stokely Carmichael

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
Henry A. Wallace

Adapted Translations

adapted in Dutch is bewerkt, aangepast
adapted in Latin is ingeniosus
adapted in Portuguese is adaptado
adapted in Swedish is anpassade

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