"Civility is not a sign of weakness."
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"Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another."
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"When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness."
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"There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!"
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"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
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"That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God."
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"Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding."
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"The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses"
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"The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures."
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"Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!"
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"I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?"
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"On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger."
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"You can't run away from yourself"
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"Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised."
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"You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths."
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"Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses."
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"The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong."
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"The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous."
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"Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge."
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"When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force."
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