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• Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Mean, Thinking

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• [H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Freedom, Sacrifice

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The works of Alexander Hamilton; compris. his corresp. and his polit. and official writings, excl. of the federalist, civil and military. Ed. by John C. Hamilton”, p.427

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• What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, War, Differences

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

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• For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

  William Wordsworth

  Victory And Defeat, Energy, Principles

  William Wordsworth (1857). “The excursion, being a portion of The recluse, a poem”, p.107

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• When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

  Gordon Brown

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 4 March 2009, Washington, D.C.

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• In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the servility of the weak, low rapacity, ephemeral pleasure purchased by great effort, death preceded by long suffering, all belong to the animals as they do to men.

  Georges Cuvier

  Death, Strong, Science

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• It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

  Albert Einstein

  Power, Giving, Goal

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• "Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Weak Points

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• There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Miracle, Forever

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• They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Stupid, Player, Men

  "Portrait of a genius as a young chess master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

  William Hazlitt

  Nature, Strong, Book

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1091, Delphi Classics

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• But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dream, Art, Nature

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• The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Men, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Years, Ideas

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• There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

  Jimmy Thompson

  Boys, Men, Track

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• I'm Here All Weak might be the strangest comedy album I have ever heard. But I've listened twice, which is more than I listen to 90 percent of all comedy albums, so I think I love it?

  Tom Scharpling

  Thinking, Albums, Might

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• He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled their disobedience. On the other hand, he bound the strong one and freed the weak and bestowed salvation on his handiwork by abolishing sin. For he is our compassionate and merciful Lord who loves mankind ... Had not man conquered man's adversary, the enemy would not have been conquered justly. Again, had it not been God who bestowed salvation we would not possess it securely.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Jesus, Strong, Father

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• I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Men, Ideas, People

  Nic Pizzolatto (2011). “Galveston: A Novel”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and our minds respond with messages that say hostile, stupid, slow, weak. Those qualities aren't out there in the environment. They don't reflect reality.

  John Bargh

  Stupid, Reality, Color

  "Where Bias Begins: The Truth About Stereotypes" by Annie Murphy Paul, www.psychologytoday.com. May 1, 1998.

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• You’re not weak. Your life is not defined by a letter grade, a dress size, your sexuality or anything else. You have every chance at happiness. You were not meant to suffer. You are loved. Never, ever give up.

  Chris Colfer

  Giving Up, Suffering, Dresses

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• I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

  William S. Burroughs

  Positive, Hate, People

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• Why are my arms so weak? It's like I did that push-up last year for nothing!

  Tina Fey

  Rocks, Years, Arms

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• I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

  Davey Havok

  Believe, Self, Drug Use

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• I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something to do something about it, then he shouldn't prostitute himself by doing something symbolic. He should get out and do something real.

  William Powell

  Real, Enough, Individual

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", p. 62, 1971.

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• I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

  James Carville

  Party, Believe, Fighting

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