We Lack Quotes
93 quotes by 86 authors
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or…
— J. G. Ballard
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We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop…
— Mark Hatfield
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With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it,…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
— Robert McKee
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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
— James Monroe
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What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their…
— Gwee Li Sui
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No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different
— Roberto Unger
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Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It…
— Walter Annenberg
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We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
— Richard Henry Stoddard
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing…
— John D. Rockefeller
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Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or…
— John Irving
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Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.
— Roy Sekoff
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What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting…
— Joseph Goebbels
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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
— Wayne Thiebaud
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In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
— Slavoj Žižek
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What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did…
— Bernard Lazare
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