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Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother. (Margaret Mead)
Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion? View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace.. . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. View quote
Henry Miller
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use. View quote
Giuseppe Peano
Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries. View quote
Leon M. Lederman
Why do you lack the strength to escape the obligation to breathe? View quote
Emil Cioran
Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street. View quote
Frantz Fanon
Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of the point and the Monad that all things commence to emerge in principle. That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point. View quote
John Dee
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill. (Robert Graves)
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away. View quote
Cesare Pavese
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. View quote
Joseph Heller
You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it. View quote
Edward James Olmos
I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again. View quote
Peter Medawar
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant. View quote
Alice Walker
... the so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data. View quote
Ronald Fisher
We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death. View quote
Julia Ormond
My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase. View quote
Ani DiFranco
One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education. (Jane Jacobs)
The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason. View quote
Roald Dahl
If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae." View quote
Phil Plait
Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it. View quote
James Baldwin