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• Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important, in the long run, to get many people taking steps in the right direction than to have fewer achieving the ideal.

  Peter Singer

  Running, Strong, Long

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• Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Philosophy, Real, Believe

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• The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

  Pope Leo I

  Jesus, Children, Men

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• Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, World, Body

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• One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Libertarian, Theory, Standards

  "Skepticism and Freedom". Book by Richard Epstein, 2003.

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• You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.

  Craig Groeschel

  Needs, Overwhelmed, Bigger

  Craig Groeschel (2010). “The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist”, p.141, Harper Collins

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• The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Running, Long, People

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• If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Fellow Man, Littles

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• Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Lying, Self, Expression

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• Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Support Systems, Design, Inner Strength

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his mind, and who knows how to be restrained in the manifestations which proceed from his nature, at the same time conducting himself justly and tolerantly towards the weaknesses of others.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Views, Mind

  G. I. Gurdjieff (1991). “Meetings with Remarkable Men”, p.30, Penguin

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• Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a step nor retreat a step. The enemy does not see me. I do not see the enemy. Penetrating to a place where heaven and earth have not yet divided, where yin and yang have not yet arrived, I quickly and necessarily gain effect.

  Takuan Soho

  Fighting, Loss, Artist

  Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

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• The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

  Robert Barany

  Mind, Progress, Way

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• Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Principles, Neutrality, Lasting Love

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...”, p.31

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• The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.

  David Deida

  Letting Go, Sex, Giving Up

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• The counselor at our clinic would cry with the girls at the drop of a hat. She would find their weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it is to have a baby.

  Debbie Harry

  Girl, Baby, Abortion

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• I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

  Yani Tseng

  Years, Focus, Three

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• If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration. However good your shots, however fast your movement and reflexes, all is lost if the mind is not controlling every move.

  Ken Rosewall

  Moving, Player, Names

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• What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spring, Power, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

  William Allen White

  Power, Would Be, Discounts

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Theatre, Stage

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.109, New Directions Publishing

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• When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Thinking, May

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.

  Rick Warren

  Men, People, Needs

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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!

  Henri Weenink

  Opponents, Chess, Moments

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• Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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