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Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
Brian May

Hurt, Children, Poor

When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.
Martin Amis

Age, Same, Young

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
Polly Toynbee

Life, Time, Mother

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Strong, Communism, Property

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
Walter Isaacson

Humor, Time, Home

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.
Ben Bernanke

Job, Cannot, Difficult

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.
Elihu Root

Men, Through, Fighting

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
Alison Bechdel

Girl, Perceived, Partly

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
Katherine Dunn

Women, Violence, Often

Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism and evolution is less than extremely weak.
Ray Comfort

Afraid, Less, Found

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
Ann Richards

Strength, Body, Exercise

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.
Alastair Campbell

Pretty, Against, Ways

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
David Hare

Strong, Deep, Two

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
Allen Tate

Age, Authority, Appeal

Part of the reason why so many actors lose the plot when they go over to America is that they become part of an industry, so that's why they don't want to play weak, bad or vulnerable guys - because that's not sellable; that diminishes their profit margin.
Peter Mullan

Bad, America, Play

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
Tanya Tucker

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
Tanith Lee

Women, Men, Strong

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.
Martin Van Creveld

Strong, Him, Fighting

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?
Michael Fassbender

Failure, Happen, Keep

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
Robin Trower

Good, Great, Experience

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.
Rob Bell

Strong, Jesus, Actually

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
Jacques Delors

Good, Society, Bad

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
Max Eastman

Down, Lies, Rest

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
Dorothy Day

Men, Strength, Society

My body gets weak without truth.
Andrei Platonov

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
John Lothrop Motley

Scared, Servitude, Persons

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.
Hjalmar Schacht

Government, Today, Single

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
David Korten

Society, Strong, Proud

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.
John Bates Clark

Him, Negative, Social

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
Jerry Rubin

Women, Men, Strong

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