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• This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from The Origin of Species. To establish the continuity required by theory, historical arguments are invoked, even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypothesis based on hypothesis, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion.

  W. R. Thompson

  Mean, Confusion, Historical

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• The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than the individual who subjects himself to battle shorn of any protection but his own skill, his own belief in himself and in his wingman. Righteousness is necessary for one's peace of mind, perhaps, but it is a poor substitute for agility . . . and a resolution to meet the enemy under any conditions and against any odds.

  Robert S. Johnson

  Men, Odds, Skills

  Robert S. Johnson, Martin Caidin “Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace”, Lulu.com

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• Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found in the expression Buddha Dharma, and dharma as 'reality-as-is' (abhigama-dharma). The teaching is a verbal expression of reality-as-is that consists of two aspects-the subject that realizes and the object that is realized. Together they constitute 'reality-as-is;' if either aspect is lacking, it is not reality-as-is. This sense of dharma or reality-as-is is also called suchness (tathata) or thatness (tattva) in Buddhism.

  Taitetsu Unno

  Teaching, Buddhism, Reality

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• The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

  James Geary

  Mind, Information, Gaps

  James Geary (2011). “The World in a Phrase”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

  Auguste Rodin

  Flower, Character, Eye

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• THE ART OF PEACE is to fulfill that which is lacking.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.142, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking. They are flowing above all into the television technologies. We must, therefore, concentrate on the CD-ROM.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Technology, Order

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• I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

  George MacDonald

  Children, Believe, Mercy Of God

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13137, Delphi Classics

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• We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

  Joseph Joubert

  Business, Ideas, Age

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me.

  John J. Geddes

  Reflection, Moon, Light

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• Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

  Karl Kraus

  Responsibility, Men, Demand

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!

  Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler

  Giving Up, Ambition, Goal

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• All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

  Alfred Adler

  Suicide, Children, Failure

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• A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

  Alfred Binet

  Intellectual, May, Littles

  Alfred Binet (1977). “Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920”

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• Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of our mind, will permit us to counteract the first hindrance to meditation, that is, our attachment to this world.

  Bokar Rinpoche

  Reality, Attachment, Meditation

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• The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters

  William Maxwell

  Past, Views, Curiosity

  William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.357, Vintage

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• The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

  Jim Goad

  People, Essentials, Vegan

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• We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.

  Bobby Knight

  Integrity, School, Kentucky

  "Knight chides Calipari in Indiana speech". www.espn.com. December 18, 2009.

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• It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

  Alfred Binet

  Self, Intellectual, Fundamentals

  "The development of intelligence in children" by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite, Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press, (pp. 42-43), 1983.

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• Help People Know They're Loved (Part 2) Spend the rest of your life giving people back to themselves, that they might love themselves. And show them by how you are with them that you know there is nothing they are lacking, nothing they are missing, nothing they need, nothing they are not.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, People, Giving

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• Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Nature, Science

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.971, Delphi Classics

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• We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Order, Profound

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling? . . .Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Falling In Love, Believe, Ignorance

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• When you understand the values of God's kingdom, you will best understand His agenda.4 However, it is my conviction that the message of the kingdom, and the values therein, are sorely lacking in understanding today.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Understanding, Kingdoms

  Tony Evans (2012). “How Should Christians Vote?”, p.22, Moody Publishers

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• What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that what this old world needs is just the art of being kind? Every time I visit a factory or any other large business concern, I find myself trying to diagnose whether the atmosphere is one of kindliness or the reverse. And somehow, if there is palpably lacking that spirit of kindness, the owners ... have fallen short of achieving 24-carat success no matter how imposing the financial balance sheet may be.

  B. C. Forbes

  Art, Kindness, Atmosphere

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