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• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  Kate Atkinson

  Book, Men, Creepy

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• The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.

  John Locke

  Children, Mind, Noble

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.51

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• The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

  Jack London

  Strong, Feelings, Language

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.3186, Delphi Classics

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• What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

  Abigail Adams

  Powerful, Details, Kingdoms

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.197

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• Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.

  Henry Taylor

  Strong, Love Is, Vices

  Sir Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life, in seven essays ... From the third London edition”, p.12

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• Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

  Matthew Fox

  Compassion, Weakness, Might

  Matthew Fox (1999). “A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

  Jerome Frank

  Civilization, Quality, Tests

  Jerome Frank (1977). “A man's reach: the philosophy of Judge Jerome Frank”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Strong, Pain, Suffering

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• When I got into the movie business, working with actors was the one thing I was really weak at. I didn't know what to say to actors. They scared me and intimidated me. The actors that I've worked with who have had a lot of experience, or who I've even grown up watching as a kid, were really scary. I was like, "What am I going to say to this person?" But, I've matured. It's fun. I understand what actors do now.

  John Carpenter

  Fun, Kids, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Lazy, Sloth

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• I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

  Suge Knight

  Thinking, Bully, Saint

  "Suge Knight Talks About Freedom, Tha Row And Who Killed Tupac". Interview with Chris Connelly, www.mtv.com. August 9, 2001.

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• I ain't never preyed on the weak. I ain't never gone and picked on a guy that I knew I could beat up, even as a kid. People wanna make me seem like I'm [that] type of guy.

  Suge Knight

  Kids, People, Guy

  "Suge Knight Talks About Freedom, Tha Row And Who Killed Tupac". Interview with Chris Connelly, www.mtv.com. August 9, 2001.

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• I don't like weak women and I don't find it interesting to play them. I'm inspired by them, when I see them in dramas, like with Natalie Portman, in almost every movie she's in. It's awesome that chicks can really go there, and it's beautiful to watch, but I don't think I'm interested, in any way, shape or form, in embodying those creatures.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Beautiful, Drama, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Hate, War

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, People, Desire

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• I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.

  George Carlin

  Religious, Fun, People

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• It's an old story; it's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak, are left behind by the side of the trail. The strong, the strong they tell us, will inherit the land. We Democrats believe in something else. We Democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the whole family intact, and we have more than once.

  Mario Cuomo

  Strong, Believe, Land

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Practice, Names

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• When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

  Sakya Pandita

  Men, Weak Man, Broken

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• But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Strong, Heart, Men

  "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume I, Chapter III, Part I, 1835.

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• Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Strong, Believe, Self

  "Gather Together in My Name". Book by Maya Angelou, p. 17, 1974.

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• Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.

  William E. Gladstone

  Hurt, Character, Men

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• When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God's strength is worth more than all the world.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Moving, Iron, Mountain

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• Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

  "'When Google Met WikiLeaks': An Exclusive Excerpt". Interview with Scott Malcomson, www.truthdig.com. October 30, 2014.

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• In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to sway opinion count as much as the number of military divisions.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Strong, Military, Numbers

  "Villepin, Not Again! Scam Allegations Won't Disappear For Former French Presidential Hopeful" by Jacey Fortin, www.ibtimes.com. September 12, 2012.

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