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“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.”

“The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.”

Firsts Ideas Values Half Growing Century Essentials Weakness Characteristics Twentieth Century Disappearance

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.”

Understanding Essentials Solutions Weakness India Clean Setting Settings Administration Lasting Governance Strength And Weakness

Author:Narendra Modi

“Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.”

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.”

Knows Way Mind My Own Essentials Weakness Honestly Knowing God Describing

Author:Christian Wiman

“Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.”

“Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.”

Belief Religious Groups Essentials Weakness Tribes Competing Selection Religious Belief

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.”

Ifs Giving Believe Desire Certain Pleasure Emotion Events Protect Essentials Capable Weakness Selfishness Tenderness Eagerness Unselfishness Diffidence

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“John Matthew was her well of soul, as the symphaths called it,or her pyrocant, to the vampires. Her essential weakness.”

Wells Soul Essentials Weakness Vampire Matthew

Book:Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.”

Believe Made Self Light Universe Challenges Behinds Mistake Essentials Weakness Contact Faithful Making Mistakes Wraps Enchantment Dazzling We All Make Mistakes

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.”

Different Wisdom Leadership Ability Business Humility Perspective Essentials Judgment Weakness Rewards Foolish Tolerance Uncommon Idiotic Replicate

Author:Dee Hock