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• Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the IDF. We have a cyber-war unit which may become the best unit in the world to fight cyber problems. On the propaganda war...it is a large failure.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  War, Fighting, Government

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Hurt, Mean, Self

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• It is hard to be with another's pain if we cannot be with our own. Since I was a child I have always felt a deep sense of responsibility to ease others' pain. But I have discovered that often, beneath this genuine and admirable desire, lies an inability to be with my own sorrow. Several years ago, watching a close friend suffer when a brain aneurysm took away her life as she knew it, I wrote in my journal, "I won't ask much. But if you would just let me save your life, perhaps it will not hurt so much to know I cannot save my own.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Hurt, Children, Pain

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• I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Horse, Love You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it... But...I do not venture to assume that my inabilities in the way of thought are inabilities of the universe. I therefore define truth as the system of my limitations, and leave absolute truth for those who are better equipped.

  Learned Hand

  Believe, Mean, Venture

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• America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

  H. L. Mencken

  America, Comedy

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• The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless

  Georges Seurat

  Dots, Critics, Pointillism

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• May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Sleep, Insanity

  Lewis Carroll, Edward Wakeling (1994). “Lewis Carroll's Diaries: Containing Journal 4, January to December 1856”

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• What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Information

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a book again. For the first time in a couple years I could read more than three pages without my brain wandering off into the ether. I drew a direct causal line between all this sort of ratta-tat-tat staccato stimulation that we get from the Internet and my growing inability to sit down and read anything that was longer than 500 words. But for me it came back because those synapses were already latent in my brain.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Couple, Book, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's too late. I think that there's been too much. This all started with the red line, walking away from it. The inability to arm the legitimate [Bashar] Assad opposition.

  John Kasich

  Thinking, Walking Away, Arms

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dad, Men, Childhood

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's really no question that there is an anguish associated with the inability to marry in this life. We feel for someone that has that anguish. I feel for somebody that has that anguish. But it's not limited to someone who has same-gender attraction.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Gender, This Life, Feels

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Trump supporters know when it's time to listen to him and when it's time to laugh and maybe not take it so seriously. They're having fun with it. And part of the reason is watch how tightly wound the people in the press corps are and openly, vividly demonstrate their utter inability to understand or relate to Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fun, People, Laughing

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.

  Rick Warren

  Thinking, America, Delay

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• It would not be desirable to include 'terrorism' among international crimes subject to International Criminal Court jurisdiction if defined to apply only to anti-state acts of violence. The failure to include terrorism as a distinct crime was due to the inability to agree upon its proper definition.

  Richard A. Falk

  Agree Upon, Definitions, Violence

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their frustrations with their governments' inability to solve pressing problems.

  Kofi Annan

  Frustration, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• Through the years of my life, the older I've gotten, the more sensitive I've become to the suffering of people and to my inability to really fix that. I wish that proportion was different. I wish I could help more. Unfortunately, that's not how the equation is working out here.

  Caroline Myss

  Years, People, Work Out

  "A Conversation with Caroline Myss". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Decision, Lasts

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• The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.

  Dana Gould

  Men, Waiting, Pudding

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• A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Humility, Three, Faces

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• I think one of the shortcomings of reality, of real experience, is most people's inability to examine something carefully and thoughtfully without moving around or being distracted by something else. What photography does really is it forces you to examine something you normally wouldn't.

  Grant Mudford

  Photography, Real, Moving

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• Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  World, Force, Knows

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• No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: "I'm sorry; I didn't see you; are you all right?" The inability to speak these words, I observe, goes right along with a propensity for mindless insults.

  Carol Tavris

  Sorry, People, Magic

  Carol Tavris (1989). “Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

  Lady Gaga

  Honesty, Night, Talking

  "Lady Gaga: 'People think I'm finished'" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2013.

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