Quotes with inadequacy

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  • Blaise Pascal Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Benjamin Haydon 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
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Victor Hugo We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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