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Tag Name "Frailties" (29)

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A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.
John Adams
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Utilitarianism is inherently pragmatic - in fact, I prefer to call it deep pragmatism. Humans have real limitations, obligations, and frailties, so the best policy is to set reasonable goals, given your limitations. Just try to be a little less tribalistic.
Joshua Greene
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Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?
Lou Andreas-Salomé
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I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.
Marquis de Sade
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
Stanley Kunitz
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I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.
Tom Coburn
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
V. S. Naipaul
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God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
William Law
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
Alexander Pope
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson
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Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
Christopher Morley
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Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.
Donald Fehr
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Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.
Henry Clay
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It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.
Jane Hirshfield
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If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
John Tillotson
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May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.
Lisa See
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It turns out that justices are also God’s children and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.
Mark Levin
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Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the Judgment Seat drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of A man's a man for 'a that, than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
Sydney J. Harris
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It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
Tom Hiddleston
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But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
William Hurt
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The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.
Yuri Kochiyama
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