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• Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world.

  Chief Dan George

  Self Esteem, Love Is, Looks

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• I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

  Alan Paton

  Men, Hands, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

  George W. Bush

  America, Evil, Enemy

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, Fall, Communist Leaders

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• I realized this weak that I just cannot do it all. So I will choose to do what i can, fabulously.

  Clinton Kelly

  Inspirational, New Year, Choices

  FaceBook post by Clinton Kelly from Aug 26, 2013

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• In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No -who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside-will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Dog, Heart

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• There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Order, Discipline, Virtue

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• Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

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• So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

  Yingluck Shinawatra

  Men, Thinking, Expectations

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fear, Character, Speak

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.53

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• The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.

  Edward Abbey

  Age, Flesh, Spirit

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal.  He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Tired, Loss

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Powerful, Passion, Heart

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1839). “Democracy in America”, p.50

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• And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Mean, Law

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• Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strong, Silence, Shelter

  "Le Fil de l'épée". Book by Charles de Gaulle, 1932.

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• What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vices, Christianity, Pity

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• Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Earthquakes, Race

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1962). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Britain”

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• Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

  Marquis de Sade

  Philosophy, Character, Simple

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• Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

  Thucydides

  Strong, Suffering, World

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Thoughtful, Compassion

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• The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

  Marianne Moore

  Strong, Overcoming, Menace

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.126, Penguin

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• Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.

  Charles Babbage

  Strong, Men, Numbers

  Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.398, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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• Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

  Blaise Pascal

  People

  Blaise Pascal (1999). “Pensées and Other Writings”, p.14, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that any action is better than no action, even if it's the wrong action; that you never reach glory or self-fulfillment unless you're willing to risk everything, dare anything, put yourself dead on the line every time; and that once one becomes strong or rich or potent or powerful it is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak become strong.

  Harlan Ellison

  Strong, Powerful, Philosophy

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook: Essays”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong--and you are strong. The great trouble with religion--any religion--is that the religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge these propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason--but one cannot have both.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strong, Fire, Judging

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