Lacking Quotes

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  If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, Patriotic, Vaccines

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• The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

  Johannes Kepler

  Order, Diversity, Heaven

  TV Mini-Series "Cosmos", 1980.

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• Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

  Franz Liszt

  Real, Men, Tests

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• Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioural sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performng the act but does not do so, tehn it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Motivation, Opportunity

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• Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Believe In Yourself

  "Path To Tranquility".

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• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

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• Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Happiness, Selfish, Stupid

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

  Andre Maurois

  Leadership, Business, Quality

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• I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

  John Malkovich

  Confidence, Ghost, Describe Myself

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• Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love, Two, Together

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.93, Penguin

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• Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

  Keith Henson

  Suicide, Growth, Arabia

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• He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

  Michael Kinsley

  Nice, Nastiness, Doe

  "Is Bush Nice? A Contrarian View" by Michael Kinsley, www.cnn.com. July 16, 1990.

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• As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

  Shelley Berman

  Sex, Culture, Privacy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, People, Acting

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• There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

  Bliss Carman

  Passion, Successful, Perfection

  "The Friendship of Art".

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• Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

  Max Muller

  Light, Soul, Bud

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

  Warren Zevon

  Mean, Hollies, Berries

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• Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

  Anthony Trollope

  Heart, Leader, Gentleman

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1855, e-artnow

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• Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nature, Learning, Science

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River out of eden: a Darwinian view of life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Thinking, Information, Know Me

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• Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.

  Daniel Suarez

  Simple, Perfect, Enemy

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Daemon”, p.270, Hachette UK

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• Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Beautiful, People, Agitation

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.27, Random House

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• The bottom line is pray. If you’re tired, sick, emotionally overwhelmed—pray. If you’re on cloud nine and life seems perfect—pray. If you lack direction—pray. If you doubt that prayer makes any difference—pray. If the circumstances of your life are out of your control—pray. If the circumstances of your life seem well within you’re your control—pray even harder. Whatever you do—pray.

  Tony Evans

  Life, Christian, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Dec 06, 2013

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