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«In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
generally, in truth, lacking
«He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.»
Author: Lisa Edmondson
| About:
Insecurity
| Keywords:
bragged, bragging, brags, confident, humble, insecure, lacking
«Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all»
«If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.»
«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.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
breed, bundle, consent, lacking, nerves, reasonableness, reproducing, stud, studded, studs, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes, Tahiti, The Nerves, tribal, wealthy
«Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
devise, devises, devising, direct, invention, inventions, lacking, simple, subtleties, subtlety, superfluous
«I began to blame the philosophers for rattling away when experience was lacking, and holding their tongues when they ought to have been answering with facts. In this respect they all seemed like watered-down theologians.»
«If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.»