"Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation."
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"I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance."
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"What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness."
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"What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground."
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"Vulnerability is not weakness."
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"30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness."
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"To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach."
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"The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious."
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"The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear."
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"Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal."
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"My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually."
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"How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!"
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"Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear."
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"Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair."
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"Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness."
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"I am the most concerned that we end up in a situation where your - everything is known about you and so therefore, not only Google, but Google, Facebook, Twitter - the whole set of companies - essentially knows all your weaknesses and therefore how to manipulate you in subtle ways in order to have you do things you might not otherwise do."
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"The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value."
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"When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident."
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"Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength."
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"The sign of death is weakness."
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