Hans Rosling

The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

Swedish Educator

Yossi Vardi

If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

Israeli Businessman

Augusto Roa Bastos

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Paraguayan Novelist

Sandra Day O'Connor

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

American Judge

Orison Swett Marden

Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.

American Writer

Emma Bell

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

American Actress

Wayne Dyer

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

American Psychologist

Slash

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

British Musician

Victor Hugo

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

French Author

Emil Cioran

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Romanian Philosopher

Often used with 'vitamin' and 'mineral', to describe health-related lacks.

Common Pairings

It implies you can measure what is missing.

Quantifiable Lack

Use 'deficiency' when the lack of something leads to negative outcomes.

Negative Consequence

Use it when critiquing systems or structures, hinting at their ineffectiveness.

Criticism Context

It suggests a need for fixing or improving the subject in question.

Improvement Implication

Used in formal or academic contexts when evaluating shortages.

Formal Evaluation

Commonly related to finance and budgeting in various contexts.

Financial Shortfalls

Particularly used in health and wellness to discuss nutrient lacks.

Medical Context

Often found in medical or technical reports and discussions.

Professional Jargon

 fiber, and micronutrients like vitamins and minerals. Did you know that most edible insects contain the same amount or even more mineral iron than beef, making them a huge, untapped resource when you consider that iron deficiency is currently the most common nutritional problem in the world? The mealworm is another nutritious example.

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 won't help your immune system function any better overall. For some vitamins, if you take in more than you need, your body will just get rid of the excess as waste. Vitamin supplements are only needed if you have a true real deficiency. In fact, some studies tell us that vitamins and supplements, when they're not medically needed,

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 As a young man, I imagined a future world where technology so advanced could rid the world of disability, a world in which neural implants would allow the visually impaired to see. A world in which the paralyzed could walk, via body exoskeletons. Sadly, because of deficiencies in technology, disability is rampant in the world.

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 getting rid of elements in the body that can damage cells. Finally, from Vitamin K, we score the ability to clot blood, since it helps make the proteins that do this job. Without this vitamin variety, humans face deficiencies that cause a range of problems, like fatigue, nerve damage, heart disorders,

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 such a buzz around this dish. There is lye in Hickory ash, which is extremely corrosive. I'm excited to be shown what this unique ingredients will do to humble corn kernels. And it also makes some more amino acids available to you, and you have less vitamin deficiencies.

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 but once that happened, that's exactly what I did. I had decided to write a letter, and a complaint letter, to regulators, illustrating all the deficiencies and the problems that I had seen in the laboratory. And as endearingly as my dad kind of notes this

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 Things like generosity and courage and friendliness and mildness, and he wants us to practice them every day so that we not only have them, we have them in the exact right amount. We don't have a deficiency of them, and we don't have an excess of them.

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 and has grown obsolete in light of dramatic advancements in actuators, control systems and neural interfacing technologies. A major deficiency is the lack of dynamic muscle interactions for control and proprioception. What is proprioception?

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 And, most importantly, there's a partnership between those perceived deficiencies and our greatest creative ability.