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• What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Laughter, Men, Healthy

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• We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier.

  Melody Beattie

  Strong, Mistake, Believe

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• Love has a way of blinding even the sharpest minds. We don't look because we don't want to see. But once love is stripped away, we see the real person clearly. There revealed to us, with all their flaws, their foibles, and their secrets.

  Lionel

  Real, Love Is, Secret

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• The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which reveal our struggles.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Struggle, Technology, Cyberspace

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

  Alain de Botton

  Numbness, Identity, World

  "Las consolaciones de la filosofía". Libro de Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.

  Alberto Manguel

  Sueño, Libro, Biblioteca

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.273, Vintage Canada

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• The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

  Moliere

  Art, Errors, Giving

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• The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.

  Henry Fielding

  Joining In, Laughing, Mirth

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.643

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• while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.

  Iris Origo

  Drama, Passion, Men

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• Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Men, Hoe, Vices

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• I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.

  Paul Beatty

  Important, Care, Firsts

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Cuerpo

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• The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.

  Alice McDermott

  Memories, Echoes, Gone

  "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". www.oprah.com. April, 2014.

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• Es lo que no entiende la gente que no tiene coche. Ven todos los coches como una tonelada y media, dos toneladas de cables, cristal, metal y goma, y eso es todo lo que ven. La gente como tú o como yo creemos firmemente que los coches son entidades vivas... Se puede desarrollar una relación con un coche y eso es lo que la gente que no tiene coches no entiende... Cuando algo tiene fallos y no se maneja correctamente, eso le da una cualidad especialmente humana porque comete errores, y así es como se puede construir una relación con un coche que otras personas no entienden.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mistake, Two, Glasses

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• The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Women, Handsome, Common

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• Mañana será otro día, más bien esperamos que sea mejor, pero mejor no será a menos que se examinen las autofobias.

  Barbara Oakley

  Yo, Crítica, Otro día

  Barbara Oakley (2010). "Genes malignos: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfri end", p.140, Prometheus Books

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• Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

  Laurence Sterne

  Happiness, Triumph, Add

  Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.349

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• I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Voice, Understanding

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• I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Thinking, Honor

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• Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.

  Michael Crichton

  Government, Police, Bankers

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• Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and carried it out over 225 years. You experience the challenges, successes, and foibles. Over time, the Foreign Service evolved into a professional cadre serving the public and presidents, often at the peril of their lives. Anyone interested in understanding our diplomacy, what makes it tick, and how it strives to serve the public interest should read this masterful history.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Eye, Years, Understanding

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• Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.

  Hannah Más

  Spring, Joy, Ease

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.380

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• Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

  George Harrison

  Friendship, Glasses, Faults

  Song: The Answer's At The End, 1975

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• We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Psychology, Mediocrity, Jargon

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• A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Libro, Lectura, Hombres

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