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• What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction

  Georg Brandes

  Humility, Self, Names

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.17, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Fall, Men, Hunting

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.186

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• No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality.

  Chris Murray

  Reality, Imagination, Achievement

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• Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Frustration, Skills

  David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.

  Sheldon Richman

  Education, School, Mean

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• Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of leisure, an inability to be at leisure, that went together with idleness; that the restlessness of work-for-work's sake arose from nothing other than idleness. There is a curious connection in the fact that the restlessness of a self-destructive work-fanatacism should take its rise from the absence of a will to accomplish something.

  Josef Pieper

  Self, Opposites, Age

  "Leisure, the Basis of Culture" by Josef Pieper, translated by Gerald Malsbary, South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, (p. 27), 1998.

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• The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

  Bernie Siegel

  Love, Acceptance, Fundamentals

  Bernie S. Siegel (2011). “Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Lying, Hard Work, Ideas

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• Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ignorance, Views, Appreciate

  "The Transmission Of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means For Furthering Peace". "Electrical World and Engineer", (pp. 21-24), January 7, 1905.

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• If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Liars, Block

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.271, Discovery House

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• Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.

  Hal Rothman

  Las Vegas, Desire, Pay

  Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.25, Routledge

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• In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.173, 1982.

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• Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.

  Daniel Crevier

  Wall, Victory, Owing

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• If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied.

  John C. Dvorak

  Crush, Apples, Competition

  "Apple's Swan Song". www.pcmag.com. January 14, 2013.

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• There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to conceive how some necessary balance, between demand and supply, between exports and imports, or the like, will be brought about without deliberate control. The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Balance, Watches

  "In Memoriam: F.A. Hayek" by Virginia Postrel, reason.com. June 1992.

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• The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Individual Strength, Church, Weakness

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Artist, Departure, Exactness

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• Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god.

  John Ralston Saul

  Cheating, Religious, Boys

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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• I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love Is, Thinking, Inability To Love

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• The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Truthfulness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.245, Penguin

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• One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.

  Criss Jami

  Mistake, Teaching, Skills

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Mean, Fullness Of Life

  "God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald". Book by Peter Seewald, 2002.

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• The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Health, Essence, Addresses

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• Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  People, Suffering, Weakness

  "The pragmatic engineer versus the scientific designer" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. November 8, 1978.

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• Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Block, Men

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.345, Univ of California Press

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