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We all have our strengths and our failings.
Good people are always forgiving. They close an eye to one's failings.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
My failings are the result of my own inter-personal abilities. I am not a good husband or boyfriend.
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
Most security failings happen because of human actions that are not envisaged when designing systems.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
People are human. People have failings. It's unfortunate people want to keep piling on people's failings.
The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.
Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.
Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.
Diana, whatever her failings, was not into making money, or as Harry and Meghan put it, financial independence.
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.
When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to do good.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
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.
I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.
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.
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.
But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.
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.
Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet.
From a victim's point of view, our justice system is hardly fit for purpose. No doubt individual failings by police and prosecutors provide part of the explanation.
Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?'
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.
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.
Because, ultimately, we can't just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design them - and the danger to those they are supposedly designed to serve.
Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.
The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.