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• (God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics who condemn this and even say that these are suicide operations that are not allowed in Islam.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Suicide, Strong, Military

  "Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi in Favor of Suicide Operations". MEMRI TV, April 2004.

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• Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

  Francois Fenelon

  Imperfect, Conquer, Fear Of Death

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• True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

  Francois Fenelon

  Heart, Simple, Attractive

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• A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.

  Frances Harper

  Insecure, Law, Government

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• Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, People, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Strong, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Essays: First Series”, p.216

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• Conversion is the act of joining our hands to the pierced hand of the crucified Saviour. The new life begins with the taking of Christ's hand, and His taking hold, in infinite love, of our weak hands.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Hands, New Life, Joining

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 162), 1895.

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• Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

  Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

  Men, Dancer, Rope

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• We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.

  Edwin J Delattre

  Character, Ignorance, Moral

  Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

  Ralph Charell

  Love, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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• Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

  Solon

  Law, Break Through, Spiders

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of the Eminent Philosophers' bk. 1, ch. 58.

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• Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.

  Rene Thom

  Rich, Structure, Algebra

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• We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.

  Watchman Nee

  Strong, Weakness, May

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.19, CLC Publications

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• being open isn't the same as being weak.

  Taylor Swift

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• A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

  John Wooden

  Strong, Giving, Leader

  John Wooden (2005). “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion”, p.29, McGraw Hill Professional

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• There's tremendous crime and illegal immigration is just incredible. As far as Rubio, he's very weak on immigration, you know, I have great relations with Mexico and I love the Mexican people, and the spirit of the Mexican people. These are people just pouring across the border.

  Donald Trump

  Love, People, Mexican

  "Jeb's right to (finally) rise; Gwen Graham's cash haul; Grayson's hedge-fund woes; FL Senate redistricting battle flares; Confederate flag rebellion" by Marc Caputo, www.politico.com. July 8, 2015.

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• But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony,
  and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever
  their continent, their class, their color.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Mean, Dark

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Party, Government

  Address delivered on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes in the British West Indies, Concord, Mass., 1 Aug. 1844

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• If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Office, Justice

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.249, Graphic Arts Books

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• We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Strong, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Memories, Complaining, Judgment

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• A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Power, Stupidity, Mind

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• O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.

  James Boswell

  Strong, Fire, Soul

  James Boswell, John Wain (1994). “The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795”, p.6, Yale University Press

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• The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are.

  Thucydides

  Strong, War, Hero

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Strong, Real

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