"Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions."
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"It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness."
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"It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation."
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"Strong people have strong weaknesses."
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"The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness."
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"In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing."
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"Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself."
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"Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive."
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"Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses."
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"No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness."
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"You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism."
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"So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof"
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"Pain is weakness leaving your body."
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"When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you."
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"True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude."
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"IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them."
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"Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended."
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"My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being."
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"If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity."
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"Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others."
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