We Lack Quotes
93 quotes by 85 authors
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Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is looming. To paraphrase…
— Robert David Steele
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We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.
— Robert Breault
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We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because…
— Lewis Mumford
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Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in…
— Edward M Hays
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to…
— Margaret Mead
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My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.
— Frances Moore Lappé
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Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers,…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.
— Frederick Lenz
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To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity.
— Frederick Lenz
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So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that…
— Frank Herbert
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we…
— Eric Hoffer
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations…
— Helen Keller
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly…
— Marilynne Robinson
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It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness,…
— George Q. Cannon
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The problem that faces us is the problem of awakening. What we lack is not an ideology or doctrine that will save the world. What…
— Nhat Hanh
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Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us…
— Mortimer Adler
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Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold…
— Pema Chodron
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