"If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that."
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"willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection."
"The weak fear happiness itself."
"The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong."
"It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness."
"When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate."
"Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws."
"You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."
"There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them."
"Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground."
"You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself."
"It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak."
"It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak."
"It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar."
"Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals."
"The strong are good, only the weak are wicked."
"There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life."
"We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless."
"The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!"
"A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong"