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• To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger on the field that says, "I can do this and you can't stop me." I know that I play baseball with this air of arrogance, but I think it's lacking in a lot of guys who could have the potential to be stars.

  Joe Morgan

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• I wanna take it deeper than money, pussy, vacation and influence a generation that's lacking in patience.

  Drake

  Humble, Vacation, Pussy

  "Song: "From Time" ("Nothing Was the Same")". 2013.

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• I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Art, Children

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• Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

  Robert McKee

  Boredom, Suffering, Desire

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• In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

  George Orwell

  Art, Writing, Math

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Abortion, Facts

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• I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

  Rick Steves

  Photography, Thinking, People

  Rick Steves (2015). “Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016: The Travel Skills Handbook”, p.625, Avalon Travel

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• I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

  Saint Augustine

  Spiritual, Long, Catholic

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• I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Men, Self

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• Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Fun, Ambition

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• One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to believe in the work they do. You're told to second-guess yourself all the time. That's where I think a little hostility and arrogance can save you. And I've never been lacking for either.

  Sean Penn

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Canada is lacking two things. It's true. Don't make me say it again. The first is Olympic Heroes [...] The second thing that Canada is lacking is Memorial Day, which is today by the way, where we in the States celebrate our war heroes by having barbeques . And I realize here in Canada you can't have barbeques because you'd probably be attacked by a moose, or caribou, or even a grizzly.

  Kurt Angle

  Memorial Day, War, Hero

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• A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.

  Karl Barth

  Communication, Eye, Waiting

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• Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

  Junot Diaz

  Use, Littles, Lacking Something

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• It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

  Agatha Christie

  Running, Strong, Book

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• I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Stars, Quality, Genius

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• I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Integrity, Believe

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• His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

  Albert Camus

  Would Be, Virtue, Granted

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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  The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Swimming, Keys

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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• Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

  Anais Nin

  Joy, Twists, Abnormal

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• There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fall, Evil, Damnation

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• Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Prayer, Way, Obedience

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• So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Believe, Heart

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• Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.

  Muhammad Asad

  Islamic, Perfect, Support

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• Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.

  Donita K. Paul

  Found, Fine, Internals

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