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• From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school — its isolation from life.

  John Dewey

  Children, School, Hands

  "The Child and the Curriculum: Including the School and Society".

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• Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Views, Years, Disease

  "A Distant Mirror". Book by Barbara Tuchman, p. 534, 1978.

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• I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five years ago. I just admit I have no idea how to say Theyskens! Don't be intimidated. Just be honest!

  Gillian Jacobs

  Real, Ideas, Years

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

  Orrin Woodward

  Problem, Incompetence

  Twitter post from May 11, 2016

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• What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

  Alan Watts

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• One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

  Billy Childish

  Lying, Problem, Has Beens

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• The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

  Matthew Ashimolowo

  Great Things, Illiterate, Small Things

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• There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Infidelity, Honor, Smitten

  Thomas Carlyle (1884). “Miscellaneous essays”

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• The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

  Confucius

  Grief, Moving, Growth

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

  Aristotle

  Men, Use, Speech

  "Poetics and Rhetoric".

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• God is faithful and true. Confess your inability and His ability, and keep your eyes on Him.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

  Alan Watts

  Intellectual, Accepting, Handicaps

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.112, New World Library

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• One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

  Josh Marshall

  Libertarian, Failing, Ideologues

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• There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.

  Octavian Paler

  Sad Life, Emptiness, Wilderness

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• A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

  Grant Bowler

  Character, Keys, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

  Gore Vidal

  Together, Disaster, Deals

  Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage

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• What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.

  Jon Foreman

  Perfect, Three, Redemption

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• I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

  Gerd Gigerenzer

  Focus, Risk, Everyday

  Gerd Gigerenzer (2015). “Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, Is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can't communicate, Children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on, And in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!

  Tom Lehrer

  Children, Husband, Real

  "Alma". Song by Tom Lehrer, 1965.

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• Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.

  Rene Descartes

  Two, Confusion, Experience

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• In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured of its utter inability to will what is good. While the opening of the prison to them that are bound is proclaimed in the gospel , the Spirit of God comes to the prison-door; opens it; goes to the prisoner, and, by the power of his grace, makes his chains fall off; breaks the bond of iniquity, wherewith he was held in sin so as he could neither will nor do anything truly good; brings him forth into a large place.

  Thomas Boston

  Spiritual, Fall, Doors

  "Select Works of Thomas Boston: With a Memoir of His Life and Writings".

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• . . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on the seashore - to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) - the traditional account of the creation.

  Isaac Newton

  Wise, Business, Philosophy

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• Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

  Plutarch

  Philosophy, Talking, People

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.

  Bette Davis

  Sex, Two, Three

  Bette Davis (2017). “This 'n That”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Thinking, People, Gossip

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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