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Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions,… — Bernard Baruch
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. — Jean de la Bruyere
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame;… — Edmund Burke
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must… — Albert Camus
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. — Luc de Clapiers
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. — Hector Berlioz
Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself. — Saadi
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus
Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself… — Thomas a Kempis
You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes holdJust that… — Ian Curtis

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