"The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting."
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"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."
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"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
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"You find your strengths and play them up."
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"In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength."
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"Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits."
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"By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect."
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"Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light."
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"In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains."
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"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."
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"Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need."
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"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."
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"'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."
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"When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us."
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"It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes."
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"If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them."
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"A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors."
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"The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence."
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"A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength."
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"I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power."
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