“ Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence. ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
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“ Liberalism, above all, means emancipation — emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination… from poverty. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.'. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ”
- Crystal Eastman- Copy
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“ Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. ”
- Dora Russell- Copy
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“ The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. ”
- Quintilian- Copy
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“ I thought and pondered - vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations. ”
- Mary Shelley- Copy
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“ So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ Poverty... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash… ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ The public deserves to know whether this is a case of FDA incompetence and a lack of diligence, or whether the FDA made a decision to protect the company's confidentiality over the public health,... Either way, we have a serious problem on our hands. ”
- Edward Markey- Copy
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“ Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ”
- Frederick Douglass- Copy
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“ I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. ”
- Petronius Arbiter- Copy
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“ It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal. ”
- Ben Shahn- Copy
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“ Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. ”
- C.A.R. Hoare- Copy
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“ The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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