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• Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Responsibility, Duty, Worth Living

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• The beer sold here in the United States is sweet and watery and lacking in taste and overcarbonated and just generally the lamest, wimpiest beer in the entire known world. All the other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer, and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sweet, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.18, Ballantine Books

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• The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any of these three are lacking. The raw material of dharma practice is ourself and our world, which are to be understood and transformed according to the vision and values of the dharma itself. This is not a process of self- or world- transcendence, but one of self- and world- creation.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Art, Commitment, Our World

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• A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

  Daniel Dennett

  Children, Islands, Empathy

  "Daniel Dennett: 'I don't like theory of mind". Interview with Carole Jahme, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

  Tim Ferriss

  Goal, Focus, Doubt

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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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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• Ardilies always says "If you're confident you're always totally different to the player that's lacking confidence"

  Keith Burkinshaw

  Soccer, Player, Different

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• In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

  E. V. Lucas

  Past, Gambling, Race

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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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• 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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• Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Past, Architecture, Moments

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• I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and sensitivity.

  Jayne Meadows

  Sorry, Real, Heart

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• I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

  Lou Rawls

  Acceptance, Understanding, Perception

  "Singer Lou Rawls dies of cancer at 72" by The Associated Press, www.today.com. January 7, 2006.

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• The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Community, Use

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• Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation

  Marianne Williamson

  Giving, Situation

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• That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Art, Talking, Modern

  "Ryan Kwanten: Kwanten Leap" by Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. November 18, 2010.

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• Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

  Irrfan Khan

  Fulfilled

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• If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living doing it, but theater is about meeting an audience. Plays are not easier to write necessarily, they take less time to write. If you get them up, it's a much more rough-and-tumble kind of existence. I think it's, from my perspective, easier than novel writing.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This means that there are aspects of reality that have not yet arisen in our consciousness. But they will arise if we grow.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Mean, Reality

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