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Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous. -- Ameen Rihani
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. -- Emile M. Cioran
We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any. -- Joe Arpaio
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies. -- Bill Moyers
So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean. -- Tony Hancock
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions. -- Hans Kung
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. -- Victor Hugo
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate. -- James Hillman
Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies. -- Jill Lepore
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However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system. -- Kenneth Clarke
Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it. -- Orison Swett Marden
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies. -- George Saunders
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. -- David Antin
While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne. -- Mark Hyman
I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am. -- Junot Diaz
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I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel. -- Emma Bell
In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that. -- John Prescott
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. -- Augusto Roa Bastos
The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency). -- Tariq Ramadan
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults. -- Haile Selassie
What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system. -- Kurt Huber
In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me. -- John Hodgman
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. -- Aristotle
Character and attitude deficiencies are piercing thorns depending your handhold -- Angelica Hopes
Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies. -- Lendon Smith
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies. -- William Hazlitt
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. -- Bob Lewis
I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies. -- Emile M. Cioran
If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation. -- E. V. Lucas
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them. -- Bernard Bailyn
Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies. -- Dorothy Gilman
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty. -- T. S. Eliot
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none. -- Margaret Weis
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. -- Helen Keller
Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking. -- Les Greenberg
People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies. -- Tom Rath
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate -- James Hillman
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. -- Samuel Johnson
Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum. -- Thomas Oden
A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver. -- Charles Spurgeon
Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too. -- Ken Blanchard
We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things. -- Tryon Edwards
As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies. -- Richard Whately
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice. -- Jean Giraudoux
One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies -- Bruce Kent
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies. -- Mors Kochanski
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all. -- Tryon Edwards
My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life. -- Gough Whitlam
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind... -- Joshua Reynolds
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better. -- W. Edwards Deming

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