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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.


Walter Bagehot
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Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.


Dan Aykroyd
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.


Luc de Clapiers
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.


Jean de la Bruyere
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When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
Pierre Nicole
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
Tami Hoag
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Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.
Tim O'Brien
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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
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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
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