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Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness ...

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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

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Eric HofferThe Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, p...

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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of n...

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When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power ...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went ...

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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attai...

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She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous...

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The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on ma...

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Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to...

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It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You wil...

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Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

O, lack and doubt and fear can only comeBecause of plenty, confidence, and love!They are the shadow-...

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George MacDonaldA Hidden Life and Other Poems

To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pri...

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...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;...

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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,...

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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of...

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This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in ...

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But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shif...

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I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a bree...

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I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little...

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I know exactly what I'm doing, but I just can't stop. That's my greatest weakness.

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defen...

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Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, a...

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centur...

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Isaiah BerlinThe Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for...

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Weak people never put an end to things themselves. They always wait for the end.

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Ivan TurgenevSpring Torrents

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less t...

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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...

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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be r...

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I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing o...

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The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to ...

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Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I...

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I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the 'Guardian' hating me. I like it when I read ...

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It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with a...

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It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sl...

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When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws...

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We are taught that the hero’s journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today ...

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

People cry, not because they're weak, it's because they've been strong for too long.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength....

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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be s...

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We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are capable of weeping, tears are often ou...

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Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unm...

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Joyce Carol OatesWild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe

But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally pas...

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Ken KeseySometimes a Great Notion

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really ins...

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It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their ow...

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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynici...

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Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicis...

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In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is be...

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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Mahatma GandhiAll Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are ofte...

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Malcolm GladwellDavid and Goliath: Underdogs

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate tha...

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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a...

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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

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McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(...

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Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weaknes...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Bellgrove, eminently lovable, because of his individual weakness, his incompetence, his failure as a...

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My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn ...

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There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a...

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I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I ...

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Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would f...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible tem...

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She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that;...

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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual ...

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Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of yourchildren, and you assig...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harm...

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How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the my...

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Women destroy me. I allow them to.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...

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Samuel JohnsonA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

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Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...

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A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence aga...

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Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposa...

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