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Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at a time.

Wesley L Duewel

Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.

Hamid-Reza Assefi

Absurd, Certain, Claims

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It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.

Thomas Aquinas

Ignorance, Greatness, Animal

"'De Potentia' ('On Power')". Book by Thomas Aquinas, q. 3, art. 6, ad 4, dhspriory.org.

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Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.

Anne Carson

Love, Pain, Moving

Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.

Amy Lowell

Lasts, Tradition, Poet

Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.6, Ardent Media

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Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

Erich Fromm

Ideas, Numbers, Culture

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.12, Open Road Media

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We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

Christopher Bollen

Artist, Generations, Lost

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Edward M Hays

Money, Simple, Expression

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To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Mean, Identity

"History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Negative, Doe, Morality

Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

Richard Bode

Criticism, Shadow, Different

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For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.

Edward Weston

Men, Cameras, Facts

Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art, Philosophy, Two

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The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people below them. A lot of people do not have relationships horizontally. And there's a lot of people who reach high political offices, but who are weirdly lonely, weirdly lacking in intimacy skills.

Mark Shields

Lonely, Skills, Office

Source: www.pbs.org

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The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.

Irvin Kershner

People, Humanity, Mind

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Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.

Thomas Sowell

Government, Littles, Assumption

Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.

Roger Ebert

People, Connections, Nerves

Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.68, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

Frank Oski

Medicine, Feeding, Informed Consent

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I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

Vince Lombardi

Compassion, Accused, Shows

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The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.

Alain de Botton

Greek, Rewards, Leisure

"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.

William Shakespeare

Kissing, Oratory, Matter

William Shakespeare (1767). “Mr. William Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream. The merchant of Venice. As you like it. The taming of the shrew”

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State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

Benito Mussolini

Political, May, Management

"Mediterranean Fascism 1919-1945" by Charles F. Delzell, The MacMillan Press, (p. 122), 1971.

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Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

Randeep Hooda

Sports, Names, People

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What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

Theodore Levitt

Creativity, Ideas, Creating

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I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes off as timid and kind and too nice, and it strikes us as lacking edge. Unless you are hijacking someone and going on a reality show with your eight kids and wearing a velour pink pantsuit, then you have no edge to us.

Sloane Crosley

Nice, Kids, Reality

"Sloane Crosley Adjusts to the Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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