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• The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

  William Hazlitt

  Friends, Character, Common

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• Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Hard Work, Self, Evil

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• In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Opposites, Romance, Zoom

  "Should I cut an old friend out of my life?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2013.

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• This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the case for many of us, Tori's ancestry is a mix of races and religions, philosophies and professions, fortunes and foibles. What to some may seem like a family tree grown wild and untamed is actually a mighty oak that has weathered life's many storms and can still put out a rare and beautiful blossom like Tori.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Past

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• I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.

  Walt Disney

  Character, Greatness, Animal

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.134, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

  Jim Harrison

  Stars, Effort, Together

  Jim Harrison (2008). “Julip: A Novel”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go to sleep at night. These practices keep me calm for the most part.

  Emily Saliers

  Sleep, Night, Practice

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• Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Views, Forgiving, Atheism

  Wendy Kaminer (2000). “Sleeping with Extra-terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety”, Vintage

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• You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.

  Joe Dante

  Jobs, Fun, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

  Kirby Wright

  People, Levels, Impossible

  "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with George Wallace, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.

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• Life with a daughter of nine through twelve is a special experience for parents, particularly mothers. In a daughter's looks, actions, attitudes, passions, loves, and hates, in her fears and her foibles, a mother will see herself at the same age. You are far enough away to have some perspective on what your daughter is going through. Still, you are close enough, if reminded, to feel it all again.

  Stella Chess

  Mother, Daughter, Attitude

  Stella Chess, Jane Whitbread (1978). “Daughters: from infancy to independence”

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• Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Children, Demand

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 21, 1811.

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• Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Thinking, Islands, Life And Death

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• I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched my capacity to abstract intellectually. The experience of being with workers, my encounters with management and my recognition of its foibles, my personal encounters with American industrial efficiency, my military experience - all of these things packaged together have greatly enriched my reading and my understanding, and I've written with what I hope is a reasonable fluency of style that is much more expressive than the academic stuff.

  Murray Bookchin

  Military, Reading, Thinking

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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