When you are offended at any mans fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
By: Epictetus
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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.
By: Jerome K. Jerome
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
By: Edmund Burke
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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. Its also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
By: Paul Theroux
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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.
By: Julian Baggini
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Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of ones own past failings.
By: Cary Grant
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Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into mens private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
By: Plutarch
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
By: Luc De Clapiers
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In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
By: Rupert Sheldrake
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
By: Nikola Tesla
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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.
By: Henry Petroski
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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.
By: Albert Camus
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