"It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his."

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Source : "Sketches from Life". Book by Samuel Laman Blanchard, Volumes 1-2, 1846.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#Weakness Quotes #Odd Quotes #Force Quotes

“I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.”
“Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.”
“Our government has no integrity!”

Source : "24/ Day 5: 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m". www.imdb.com. 2006.
“You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed â€¦ to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane”
“in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.”
“When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.”
“Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.”
“I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).”

Source : "What I know about women". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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