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The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.

The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.

To a predator, fear indicates weakness.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.

To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which is intended to procure the subservience of the West to Moscow under an ultimate Communist World Government.

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.

To have weakness is not to be flawed--it's to be complete.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.

To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.

Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.

True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths

Try to look for weaknesses in your thinking.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Tyranny is always weakness

Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.

Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Use your will to conquer fears and weaknesses!

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well... Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.