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    a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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    Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.

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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.

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    A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness.

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    "Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

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    All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

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    Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

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    A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. 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.

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    All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

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    All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

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    All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

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    ... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.

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    All of us have weaknesses, but we also have strengths. God’s Spirit has gifted each of us for the good of the church.

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    America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

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    All haste implies weakness.

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    Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

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    A mind is as strong as its weakest think.

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    And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

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    A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

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    And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!

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    Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice.

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    An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

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    A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered.

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    A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

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    A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses, is not flawed but complete.

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    And with the right mentor, don't be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don't know what you don't know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you'll be surprised how much others will help.

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    Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

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    Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.

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    A single God - touch From God's Compassion - Height Can transform man's unimaginable And countless weaknesses Into God's own infinite,Immortal and omnipotent Power.

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    A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.

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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.

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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.

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    As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

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    Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

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    a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.

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    A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its "intrinsic value" gradually becomes disseminated throughout the market place.

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    A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

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    A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

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    Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

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    Because ALWAYS, even in the darkest moments, in moments of sin, in moments of weakness, in moments of failure, I have seen Jesus, and I trusted Him... He has not left me alone.

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    Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

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    At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.

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    A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.

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    Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

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    Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

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    Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

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    Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers.

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    But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

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    But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

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    But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.