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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. -- Miguel de Cervantes
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. -- Jef Raskin
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. -- Albert Einstein
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. -- Tom Hiddleston
Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties. -- Blanche Lincoln
We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else. -- Lee R. Raymond
The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward. -- Dillon Burroughs
You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty. -- Bing Crosby
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man. -- Herbert Hoover
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force. -- Blaise Pascal
Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly -- Peter Cosgrove
I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible. -- Tom Hiddleston
My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties. -- Khalil Gibran
It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard. -- Jane Hirshfield
Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith. -- Saul Alinsky
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. -- Albert Einstein
Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery. -- Hilaire Belloc
[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets. -- Ida Tarbell
And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage. -- John Locke
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. -- Daniel Nathans
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. -- Anne Stevenson
You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk. -- Henry B. Eyring
I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure. -- David Rakoff
Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition. -- Donald Fehr

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