#deficiency

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

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I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

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I have an iron deficiency. You can tell by how wrinkled my clothes are.
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— Jarod Kintz

#clue #clues #humor #insight #insightful

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency? ↗

— Richard Cobden

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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

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