#weaken

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it. ↗

— Rick Warren

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT. ↗

— James Meade

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A feeble body weakens the mind. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens. ↗

— David Brin

#america #been #before #being #bio

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

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A puny body weakens the soul. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. ↗

— Leon Panetta

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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#correct #good #passions #weakening #why

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. ↗

— Voltaire

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