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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why, Broken, Reason

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

Happiness, Makes, Height

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Her, She

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Promise, Break, Reasons

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, Sympathy, Friendly

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Denis Waitley

Life, Integrity, May

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder

Mean, Eyes, Vision

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Power, Prevent, Forbid

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams

Integrity, Impossible, Often

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Andre Maurois

Smile, Everyone

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
Philip Emeagwali

Human, Nation, Natural

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
Bryant H. McGill

Courtesy, Basic

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
Theodor Adorno

Aspiration, Exclusive, Totality

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
Donald Rumsfeld

Decisions, Against, Test

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Rather, Alive

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
Christina Aguilera

Music, Real, Actually

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
Abu Bakr

Faith, Advice, Sound

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Jean Anouilh

Life, Art, Nice

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Quintilian

Evil, Speaks, Differs

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
Bjork

Life, Love, Place

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
Jean Baudrillard

Sad, Artificial, Artifice

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago.
Christopher Alexander

Today, Everyone, Order

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
Tom Cruise

Life, Find, Play

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Antonio Porchia

Poverty, Complete

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Antonio Porchia

River, Mourning, Tear

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Phyllis McGinley

Fool, Mind, May

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.
Donald Wills Douglas

Real, Small, Dream

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
O. Henry

Love, Said, Makes

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
Brent Scowcroft

Democracy, Same, Since

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