“ All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- 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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“ In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ Fat is a way of saying "no" to powerlessness and self-denial. ”
- Susie Orbach- Copy
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“ Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will. ”
- La Rochefoucauld- 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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“ Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. ”
- Winston Churchill- 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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“ Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. ”
- Rollo May- 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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“ 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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“ A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- 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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“ The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. ”
- Benjamin Haydon- Copy
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“ We trained hard - but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation. ”
- Petronius Arbiter- Copy
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“ Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others - and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. ”
- Flannery O’Connor- Copy
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“ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ”
- H.P. Lovecraft- Copy
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