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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.
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All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
Source: Interview with The Guardian (February 1970) -
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
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Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
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No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
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Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
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The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
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The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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