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• How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Law, Omnipotence

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• Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

  Alan Keyes

  Rights, Order, Would Be

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• Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

  Joseph Parker

  Wish, Comfort, Towers

  Joseph Parker (1873). “Detached links, extracts from the writings and discourses of J. Parker, compiled by J. Lucas”, p.455

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• You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Truth Is

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• We [Democrats] have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Insecure, People

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• What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Block, Soul, Victory

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.10

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• Violence is the weapon of the weak.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Weapons, Violence

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• Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Voice, Christ

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Years, One Day

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

  Otto von Bismarck

  People, East, Lucky

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• Commitment. Someone who'll go the distance. I need somebody with staying power who'll make me go weak in the knees. Commitment. And everything that goes with it. I need honor and love in my life from somebody who's playing for keeps.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Distance, Commitment, Honor

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• Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Winning, Men, Expression

  "Fictional character: Stalker". "Stalker", May 1979.

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• I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness. I have therefore come to a certain belief which is based on three powerful effective commandments: THOU SHALT BE ENTERTAINING AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT OBEY THY ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT MAKE EACH FILM AS IF IT WERE THY LAST.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Powerful, Relax, Three

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• There are a host of ethnic minorities in China but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.

  Martin Jacques

  Numbers, Identity, Groups

  "Identity runs deep in China" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2009.

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• Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'

  Catherine the Great

  Men, Smoking, Lips

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• Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.

  J. K. Rowling

  Strong, Temptation, Weakness

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• I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Needs, Fierce

  "Secrets of a Two-Time Pulitzer Winner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.

  Tom Segev

  Mistake, Thinking, Uprising

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• No one wants to say they hate their own body. Many are scared that if they confide in others then people will look down on them. This is wrong. It's not weak to talk about it. On the contrary. It's the same with alcoholics and drug addicts - you have to be honest with yourself first. When you have accepted the negatives you can then focus on the positives, like, I have nice hair, nice eyes, great cheekbones.

  Crystal Renn

  Nice, Hate, Eye

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• According to the computer models, we do expect high winds in northern Germany to increase by one percent per decade. But this is such a weak phenomenon that we won't even notice it at first.

  Hans von Storch

  Wind, Germany, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

  Ben Lerner

  Writing, Criticism, Fiction

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If I cry, it means I'm too weak to compete in this sport. That's bull.

  Shawna Robinson

  Sports, Mean, Bulls

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• Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Strong, Past, Feelings

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• The Lord wants us to have a threefold confidence. First, we are to be confident that He loves us in our weakness. Second, we are to be confident that He esteems our weak love for Him as genuine.Third, we are to be confident that He still entrusts us with the calling that He originally gave us.

  Mike Bickle

  Weakness, Calling, Want

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• We cannot take a step in our Christian life without the help of the Lord, because we are weak.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Steps, Helping

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