#weakest

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#deprive #grave #life #may #most

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #awards #choices #compassion

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#break #chain #link #strongest #weakest

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#age #opinions #our #understanding #weakest

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. ↗

— William James

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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#highest #ideas #moral #music #namely

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service. ↗

— Fritz Hollings

#categorically #country #direction #got #governor

A list is only as strong as its weakest link. ↗

— Donald Knuth

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