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• POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pockets, Alive, Sin

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.166, 谷月社

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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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• Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would we think of a man or woman who does not experience jealous feelings when another person approaches his or her spouse and threatens to win his or her affection? We would regard such a person as deficient in moral character and lacking in true love.

  Sam Storms

  Husband, Jealous, Character

  Sam Storms (2014). “Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God”, p.144, Tyndale House

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• Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Eternity, Whole

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.75, Hackett Publishing

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• What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Sweet, Flower

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• Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery.

  Murong Xuecun

  Nurse, May, Way

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• Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.

  Isocrates

  Men, Risk, Favors

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• Only what I am not giving can be lacking in any situation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Giving, Situation

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• There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would argue that not only is it relevant, but that when compassion is lacking, our activities are in danger of becoming destructive. This is because when we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Compassion, Impact

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• Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Self, Hatred, Missing

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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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• Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Honesty, Oneness, Effort

  "A Plea for Solidarity". The International Socialist Review, Vplume XIV, No. 9, March 1914.

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• Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Self, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.134, Vivekananda Kendra

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• ...the souls of the dead [are] not deprived of their intellectual faculties but... they also are not lacking in feelings such as hope and sadness, joy and fear. They already have a foretaste of what is in store for them after the general judgment. Nor does it happen, as some unbelievers would hold, that upon leaving this world they are turned to nothing. Actually they live more intensely and they concentrate more on the praises of God.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Sadness, Joy

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.49, Paulist Press

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• There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

  Frank Sinatra

  Morning, Night, Quiet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Lying, Mind

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• If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, One Thing, Ifs

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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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• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Love, Comforting, Fiction

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• When a person does not think, "Where shall I put it?" the mind will extend throughout the entire body and move to any place at all. . . . The effort not to stop the mind in just one place - this is discipline. Not stopping the mind is object and essence. Put it nowhere and it will be everywhere. Even in moving the mind outside the body, if it is sent in one direction, it will be lacking in nine others. If the mind is not restricted to just one direction, it will be in all ten.

  Takuan Soho

  Moving, Thinking, One Direction

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• God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)resembles something that has not occurred:i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kisswithout lips;a prayer lacking any kneesbut something beats within my shirt to provehe is undead who living noone is.I have never loved you dear as now i love.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Dog, Prayer

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

  Walt Whitman

  Women, Waiting, Wait For Me

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.151, Penguin

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• It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed to say if a kid asks about those four words on a dime - 'In God We Trust.' Or maybe that's why they aren't being taught how to read these days.

  Ronald Reagan

  Teacher, School, Kids

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