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Tag Name "Failings" (92)

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A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher
John Newton
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Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical failings honestly according to a secular code of right and wrong.
Deborah Feldman
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
Oliver Goldsmith
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One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.
Josh Marshall
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One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.
Desmond Tutu
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I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.
Patrick Rothfuss
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I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.
Koren Zailckas
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
Don DeLillo
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Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
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A man is more than his failings.
Rick Reilly
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It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Elijah Cummings
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
Alain de Botton
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It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.
Robert South
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though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.
Evelyn Underhill
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Albert Camus
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I have chosen a different path when talking about the failings of the Republican leadership. I don't make it personal, and many other people do, and I suspect maybe they're not aware of that. If everybody's dumping on 'em, they're gonna conclude that everybody is.
Rush Limbaugh
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Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.
Alexis Ohanian
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Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.
Sarah Dessen
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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.
Gerard Depardieu
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I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.
Amy Sedaris
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Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
Thucydides
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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Hector Berlioz
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