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“Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.”

Ifs Want Feels Known Too Much Shame Blessed Distance Pity Lacking Merciful

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?”

Ifs Wells Doe Enough Tea Lacking Brewing Teapots

Author:Sen no Rikyu

“If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.”

Ifs God Perfect Lacking

Book:The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides

Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides

“I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.”

Source: Pavannes and Divagations

“Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.”

Madness Mood Poetry Is Bells Lacking Whim Lighters Cymbals

Book:The works

Source: The works

“The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.”

Firsts Ends Common Marriage Comfort Findings Satisfaction Impulse Elsewhere Lacking

Book:Man's World Woman's Place

Source: Man's World Woman's Place

“It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Should Acting Fields Disaster Ghost Lacking Describe Myself

Author:John Malkovich

“I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a sharply focused image. A landscape painted with exactness forces you to see a determined number of clearly differentiated trees, while in a blurry canvas you can perceive as many trees as you want. The painting is more open.”

Want Art Found Force Numbers Tree Painting Determined Focused Contrary Landscape Perceive Canvas Lacking Exactness Blurry

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

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

Responsibility Duty Lacking Worth Living

Author:Marlene Dietrich

“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.”

World States Funny America Nations United Known United States Sweet Taste Humorous Drinking Beer Rays Lacking

Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“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.”

“The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.”

People Men Long Political Religion Values Religious Attitude Moral Virtue Fool Mass Foundation Philosopher Criminals Substitutes Sole Lacking Religious Faith Deficiency

Author:Adolf Hitler

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

Children Stills Language Social Empathy Raised Desert Islands Interaction Lacking Sentient Beings Social Interaction

Author:Daniel Dennett

“There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.”

Men Feelings Evolution Men And Women Schemes Lacking

Book:Evolution and Ethics

Source: Evolution and Ethics

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”

Ifs Happiness Three Lost Stupid Intellectual Stupidity Selfish Selfishness Healthcare Lacking Requirements Stupid People Good Health People Stupidity Selfish Desire Lacking Something

Book:The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

“I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.”

People Difficulty Shy Lacking Juniors Junior High Making Friends

Author:Alex Flinn

“You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.”

Giving Looks Kind Culture Results Appreciate Shock Realising Lacking Other Cultures

Author:Mem Fox

“After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.”

Ifs Artist Left Interesting College Office Dull Lacking Academia

Author:Joshua Ferris

“Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.”

Home Faces Social Grace Lovers Phones Lacking Inventing Low Self Esteem Social Graces

Author:Janis Ian

“If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.”

Ifs Needs Giving Character Seems Motivational Certain Asks Quality Encouragement Mentality Lacking Meditating

Book:Make your life worth while

Source: Make your life worth while

“As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual has become adapted; and almost everything is unnatural outside his range of adaptation. Harmonious equilibrium with nature is an abstract concept with a Platonic beauty but lacking the flesh and blood of life. It fails, in particular, to convey the creative emergent quality of human existence.”

Source: Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change

“Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.”

Source: After Virtue

“Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.”

Thinking Knows Information Know Me Lacking

Author:Michel Houellebecq

“China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.”

Writing Self Responsibility Awareness Self Awareness China Lacking

Author:Ma Jian

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