"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."
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"If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined."
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"Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness."
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"Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses."
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"You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths."
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"Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation."
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"Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born."
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"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person."
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"We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities."
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"The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success."
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"We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds."
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"Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin."
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"Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world."
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"Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness."
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"Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately."
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"The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong."
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"For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness."
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"Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths."
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"We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness."
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"My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body."
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