#weak

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all. ↗

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#illness #inspirational #life #life-changing #meaning

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#although #few #gold #know #knowing

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies. ↗

— John R. Allen

#armies #formation #formations #hallmark #large

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique. ↗

— Leonard Bacon

#dull #effort #game #given #idiot

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#ask #capitalist #capitalist society #freedom #how

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#appear #blow #colonial #colonialism #death

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made. ↗

— Robert Barany

#exactly #formulate #his way #made #minds

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#comes #eyes #good #just #leaders

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of weakness is as foreign to them as the idea of honor itself. ↗

— James Bowman

#weakness #intelligence

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. ↗

— Tina Brown

#bush #creates #just #makes #mistake