"Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life."
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"He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing"
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"It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business."
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"My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk."
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"Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause in most of the incidents of hunger is lack of ability to pay for food. If we are looking for ways to end hunger then we should be looking at ways to ensure a reasonable level of income for all"
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"The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding."
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"The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)"
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"[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true."
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"Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches."
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"Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas."
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"All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly."
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"The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room."
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"The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms."
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"It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year."
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"There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse."
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"The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature."
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"...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point."
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"By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success"
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"Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse."
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"It is always our inabilities that vex us."
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