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The depths of our strength are often discovered in the struggle of our weaknesses.
Author:
Jasmine Garcia
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
Author:
Edward Young
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Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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Virginia Woolf
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
Author:
John Wooden
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.
Author:
Thomas Willis
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We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
Author:
Bern Williams
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Oscar Wilde
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When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Author:
Edmund Waller
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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Author:
Voltaire
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Author:
Voltaire
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Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
Author:
Jean Vanier
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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
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Lao Tzu
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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
Author:
William Taft
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Author:
Madame Swetchine
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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
Author:
Anne Swetchine
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People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
Author:
Ruben Studdard
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Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
Author:
Henry Stimson
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
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Swami Sivananda
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I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
Author:
William Shirley
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Author:
Fulton Sheen
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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Lucius Seneca
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Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.
Author:
Jay Sekulow
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.
Author:
Richard Scott
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general.
Author:
Bob Schaffer
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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
Author:
George Savile
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
Author:
Kevin Rollins
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The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.
Author:
Kevin Rollins
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My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
Author:
Bill Rodgers
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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I'd have to acknowledge that I have a weakness for the fairer sex - and I hope I never get over it.
Author:
Chuck Robb
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When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness.
Author:
Geraldo Rivera
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Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Author:
Arthur Rimbaud
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Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Author:
Miranda Richardson
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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My family is my strength and my weakness.
Author:
Aishwarya Rai
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
Author:
Marge Piercy
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
Author:
William Penn
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Author:
Robert Peel
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Author:
Boris Pasternak
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Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
Author:
Clementine Paddleford
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Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.
Author:
Frank Nugent
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Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
Author:
Mike Murdock
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The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
Author:
Thomas Meagher
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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
Author:
Mignon McLaughlin
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Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
Author:
George McClellan
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According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
Author:
George Mason
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Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
Author:
William Marston
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I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
Author:
Ella Maillart
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
Author:
James Lowell
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
Author:
Blake Lively
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They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.
Author:
James Lind
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Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
Author:
George Lewes
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I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Author:
Robert Lee
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How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?
Author:
Tom Lantos
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure.
Author:
Richard Krajicek
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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
Author:
Thomas Kempis
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
Author:
Fanny Kemble
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
Author:
Florence Kelley
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
Author:
John Keats
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Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.
Author:
Paul Kagame
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My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Author:
Michael Jordan
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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Author:
William James
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Author:
Washington Irving
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You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.
Author:
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Author:
Hubert Humphrey
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What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
Author:
Brit Hume
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
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The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.
Author:
Elias Hicks
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The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
Author:
Paul Harris
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Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.
Author:
Marvin Harris
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The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
Author:
Johann Hamann
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
Author:
Zane Grey
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Don't mistake niceness for weakness.
Author:
Jennifer Granholm
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Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Author:
Billy Graham
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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Author:
James Goldsmith
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My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.
Author:
Paul Gleason
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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Author:
Charlotte Gilman
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
Author:
Walter Gilbert
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.
Author:
Rich Galen
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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Author:
Erich Fromm
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I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit.
Author:
Whitey Ford
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You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.
Author:
Whitey Ford
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Author:
Thomas Edison
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I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
Author:
Aaron Eckhart
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Author:
Dorothy Dix
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
Author:
Dave Davies
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Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Author:
Charles Colton
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My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
Author:
Jackie Collins
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The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.
Author:
Ahmed Chalabi
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.
Author:
M. Casey
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Author:
Andrew Carnegie
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If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.
Author:
Dennis Cardoza
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I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.
Author:
Steve Buyer
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
Author:
George Bush
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The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
Author:
George Bush
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The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.
Author:
Bill Budge
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I believe in the power of weakness.
Author:
Pat Buckley
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Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Author:
Paul Brunton
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Author:
Elizabeth Browning
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Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.
Author:
Tina Brown
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As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
Author:
Thomas Brown
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
Author:
Orlando Battista
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
Author:
Abu Bashir
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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Author:
Mikhail Bakunin
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Author:
Walter Bagehot
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I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.
Author:
Timothy Ash
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When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
Author:
James Allen
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Author:
Amos Alcott
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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
Author:
Akhenaton
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Author:
Joseph Addison
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Author:
Joseph Addison
