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• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Fear, Weakness, Concessions

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

  Rene Descartes

  Errors, Mind, Amazed

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

  Marlene Dietrich

  Strong, Weakness, Strength And Weakness

  Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”

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• I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Courage, Kings

  Speech to troops at Tilbury, England (1588).

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• A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Being Strong, Integrity, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

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• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

  Victor Hugo

  Sympathy, Sorrow, Doe

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• Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

  Richard J. Needham

  Love, Strong, Fall

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• In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

  Laozi

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Hard Times

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.113, Chinese University Press

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• Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Strong, Mind, Calm

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.39, e-artnow

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• When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

  John Heisman

  Opponents, Weakness, Weak Spots

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• When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

  Piers Anthony

  Glitter, Sometimes, Guilty

  Piers Anthony (1989). “Bio of an Ogre: The Autobiography of Piers Anthony to Age 50”, Ace Books

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• Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Strong, Communism, Inequality

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.132, AK Press

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• Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Doe, Alive, Birth

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• God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wise, World, Foolish

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.184, Macmillan

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• Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

  Jesse Ventura

  Atheist, Numbers, People

  Jesse Ventura (2008). “Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!: From the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to the Baja Outback : Reflections and Revisionings”, Skyhorse Publishing Company Incorporated

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• It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Law, People

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• Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Men, Names

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• The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

  Ratan Tata

  Strength, Strong, Survival

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• As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

  Pema Chodron

  Strength, Happiness, Encouraging

  "Practicing Peace in Times of War". Book by Pema Chodron, books.google.ru. 2007.

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• To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

  Robyn Davidson

  Inspirational, Freedom, Struggle

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

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• The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Success, Believe, Hard Work

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• Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

  Amy Carmichael

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.30, CLC Publications

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• Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

  George Soros

  Government, Democracy, Investing

  "Philanthropist Under Fire". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. March 1, 2004.

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• You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.

  Wayne Dyer

  Selfish, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 28, 2015

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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.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Michael Jordan, Walter Iooss, Mark Vancil (1995). “I'm back!: more rare air”, Harpercollins

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