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Naguib Mahfouz
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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John Milton
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... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.
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MILTON: _Sam. Agonistes,_ Line 831.
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If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.
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George Jackson
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
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Richard Harris
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Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
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Irving Wallace
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Naguib Mahfouz
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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La Rochefoucauld
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If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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Roy M. Cohn
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Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.
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Annie Dillard
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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward.
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John P. Loughrane
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It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.
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Amos Bronson Alcott
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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American Indian Proverb
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The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.
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Madame Swetchine
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Robert Louis Stephenson
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You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand
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Lois McMaster Bujold
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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also
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Charles Lamb
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; . . . that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
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Pietro Aretino
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
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Orlando A. Battista
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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Samuel Johnson
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Eric Sevareid
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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
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Kahlil Gibran
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
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William Punshon
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Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right
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Mahatma Gandhi
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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence....I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witne
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Julie Morgenstern
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If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do.
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Miranda Richardson
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Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Legend of Brittany,_ Pt. ii., St. 43.
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A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
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Ernest Hemingway
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
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D. H. Lawrence
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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
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D. H. Lawrence
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But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
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Maitri Upanishads
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When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
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Aristotle
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Aristotle
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility: Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.
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Anthony Walton
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America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
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Dee W. Hock
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Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
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Akhenaton
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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
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If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
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"I am a right maid for my cowardice." -- Shakespeare
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Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
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It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but ob
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Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
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"Never apologize, Misterit's a sign of weakness."<Crow, MST3K>
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"exposing every weakness, however carefully hidden by the kids"
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"Never say yer sorry, mister. It's a sign of weakness."-John Wayne
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"Walk beside me, Na'Toth. I must not show weakness." G'Kar
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"... exposing every weakness, however carefully hidden by the kids"
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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"Your lenience is a sign of weakness." -- Corg
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"Your overconfidence is your weakness." -- Luke Skywalker
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"My mortal weakness is cheesecake." -- Tom Servo
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"No, mustn't let them see weakness" - G'Kar
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"I must not show weakness." - G'Kar
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Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is
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Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
Expediency asks the question - is it political?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
There comes a time when one must take a position that
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Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is
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"Generosity has always been my weakness" - Q
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We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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