Quotes with weak-built

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  • C. V. Raman The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Edmund Burke The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Jean Rostand There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • James Russell Lowell They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Anna Louise Strong They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Karl Kraus This is something that I cannot get over - that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Brooks Atkinson This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Sallust Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Jean Rostand To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Emily Post To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Lenny Bruce Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Barbara Smith Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Abraham Cowley Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • U. Thant Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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