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Quotes About Deficiency

There is among us a tendency to consider true, good and fine everything that appears under the agreeable cloak of revolt against the accepted "truths", especially if supported by people who are, or call themselves, anarchists. This shows a deficiency of that spirit of investigation and criticism that should be maximally developed in anarchists.
~ Errico Malatesta
E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
~ Alan Cooper
Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.
~ Joel Fuhrman
The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.
~ Bernard Grasset
jOrdnung ist heutzutage meistens dort, wo nichts ist. Es ist eine Mangelerscheinung.
~ Bertolt Brecht
The bottom line with men is: they feel best about themselves when they are solving problems. Therefore, they spend most of their time doing what they are best at while they attempt to ignore the things which cause them to feel deficient.
~ Bill Farrel
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.
~ J. G. Ballard
Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency.
~ Hanif Kureishi
The energy used in thinking seems to have a chemical origin; for instance, a deficiency of iodine will turn a clever man into an idiot.
~ Bertrand Russell
Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.
~ Beryl Markham
The main weakness of competitiveness policy as currently practiced in Latin America is deficient implementation and lack of evaluation of programs, rooted in lack of coordination among state agencies.
~ Evelyne Huber
Memory deficiency got so bad with me, I forgot to repeat a piece of gossip I swore on my Grandmother's Grave never to divulge.
~ bombeck erma iii
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
~ bovee christian nestell xi
Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them.
~ Richard J. Roberts
Ac? çekmek için bile yetersizdim.
~ Stefan Zweig
The absence of pandemic prevention was another example of a deficiency in the system.
~ Michael Lewis
We now know that selenium makes two vital enzymes, deficiency in which has been linked to hypertension, arthritis, anemia, some cancers, and even, possibly, reduced sperm counts. So, clearly it is a good idea to get some selenium inside you (it is found particularly in nuts, whole wheat bread, and fish), but at the same time if you take in too much you can irremediably poison your liver.
~ Bill Bryson
In consequence, some 50 percent of people globally are estimated to be vitamin D deficient for at least part of the year. In northern climes, it may be as much as 90 percent.
~ Bill Bryson
Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies.
~ Bill Bryson
Todo tan insuficiente, tan de más o de menos.
~ Julio Cortazar
In the end, everything is found to be wanting.
~ Frank Lentricchia
when men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole -a deficiency - we scramble to fill it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Diabetes mellitus is due to a deficiency of the internal secretion of the pancreas. The main principle of treatment is, therefore, to correct this deficiency.
~ Frederick Banting
Ignorance is not merely a deficiency of knowledge but, in addition, it positively apprehends reality in a distinctive way. And being a distorted mode of conception, it creates a view of the world that is in opposition to, and in conflict with, the actual way the world is.
~ Stephen Batchelor