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When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. Epictetus

You Man Anger Yourself Fault Offended Will Own Study Failings Forget Any Turn Then Your

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Nikola Tesla

Man Matter Our Virtues Inseparable More Failings Like Force Separate

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. Cary Grant

Past Snobbery Own Recognition Failings Beware Unwelcome

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. Albert Camus

Truth Truth Is Dangerous Liberty Goals Long Live Our Elusive Must Mysterious Advance Road Toward Failings Always Certain Hard Painfully Conquered March Two Resolutely

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Bernard Baruch

You Yourself Own Tool See Only Sharp Failings Know Know Yourself Passions Brain Efficient Them Separate Prejudices Your Serve

We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten. Henry Petroski

Events Space Accidents Design Later Once Those Systems Open Columbia Failings Well Call Leave However Undesirable Expected Forgotten Predicted Titanic Engineers Challenger Technological Fates

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. Jerome K. Jerome

Other Sympathy Our Virtues Faults Find Follies Touch Failings Each

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. Paul Theroux

Friendship Exploitation Weakness Mutual About Failings Also Liking Person Help

Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet. Alberto Sordi

Me You Care Meet Neighbors Neither Take Take Care Failings Like Nor Italians Greet Staircase Your Full Whom

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. Anna Seward

Good Will Though Record Touch Eminent Tenderness Failings Just

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist. Ayelet Waldman

Me Gay Man Woman Enjoy Kid Laugh Insecure Someone Failings Stereotypical Makes Feminist Want Who Company Whose Conscious

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield. Bruce Springsteen

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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. Dan Castellaneta

Time Freedom People Dark Humor Despite Cartoon More Gives Writers Pushes Simpsons Failings Sophisticated Always Line Normal Than Sitcom Same Human Essentially Decent Same Time Decent People Being The Simpsons Really

Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction. Ethan Canin

Life Made Ambition Politicians Sense Every Way Exaggerated Magnetism Failings Than Fiction Bigger Personalities Appetites

Most students of Kissinger find it hard to say anything about Kissinger that isn't about the man himself. He is such an outsize figure that he eclipses his own context, leading his many biographers, critics, and admirers to focus nearly exclusively on the quirks of his personality or his moral failings. Greg Grandin

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We all have our strengths and our failings. Hannah Simone

Our Failings Strengths

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. Hector Berlioz

Failure Admit Failings Least Lack Modesty

I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves. Jon Ronson

Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator. Julian Baggini

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Good people are always forgiving. They close an eye to one's failings. Marco Pierre White

Good People Good People Eye Failings Always Close Forgiving

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