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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

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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

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I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

~Bill Moyers

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You never sit on your laurels. It is always a case of trying to work on your deficiencies as much as working on your strengths.

~Brian O'Driscoll

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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

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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

~Emile M. Cioran

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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

Topics: Attracted Beings Deep Deficiencies Feel Force Get How Human Human Beings Life Like Look Our Paths Us Weaknesses You I Feel I Feel Like

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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

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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

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