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Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Charles F. Kettering

"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, .

Octavio Paz

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

Carlos Castaneda

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.

Robert Southey

Weaker job creation weakens the Canadian dollar. The Bank of Canada may be a little less active in 2006.

Clement Gignac

The damage starts on the trees at the outside of the grove and the exposed fruit at the top of the trees. We're hearing now that damage is getting further into the grove. Consecutive nights of cold weather weakens the fruit.

Bob Krauter

What the current deficit does is make the dollar vulnerable. It means we could see a vicious cycle, where a declining dollar makes U.S. assets less attractive to foreign investors, which weakens our assets further, which puts further pressure on the dollar.

Lara Rhame

When the U.S. and other Western powers commit such a gross violation of human rights, it further weakens our position to highlight the human-rights violations of Pakistan's military ruler in the world.

Afrasiab Khattak

Our feeling is that it was an incorrect interpretation and it weakens the state's environmental statutes. We have quite a few of these things. The experience indicates that customers make fewer trips of a shorter distance over time. That's a significant reduction in road miles. They're going to one place instead of 14 places to get what they need. We think that's relevant.

John Simley

Exports are thriving, but will tail off at the end of the year as the world economy weakens.

Andreas Scheuerle

Even if it weakens to a Category 3, it will still do a lot of damage.

Chris Sisko

The dollar is down because of anticipation of tensions in the region. When things start to get worse it's the dollar that weakens. It's more to do with risk aversion.

Marios Maratheftis

It's been fairly persistent for the last several weeks. It's the big weather-maker. As soon as it weakens, it gets reinforced.

Derek Wroe

On an earthen dam, if you don't do maintenance and you have vegetation growth, tree roots penetrate into the soil and then it weakens the soil or creates cracks or gaps where water can seep in.

Michael Wong

It seriously weakens the wall separating church and state, this vital protector of religious liberty for all Americans.

David Saperstein

The key for Asia is going to be the yen. As long as the yen stays about where it is or weakens a little bit, the rest of Asia should be fine. I think the market got ahead of itself over the past six weeks, driving the yen stronger against every major currency, and I think that we will probably start to see a little bit of unwind from that.

Maureen Mcfarland

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Joseph Addison

The direction of the U.S. dollar: Since the economy shows signs of slowing, investors are worried that if the dollar weakens further it might affect equities and other US dollar-denominated investment vehicles. They are also worried about U.S. producer price figures for May.

Alex Tang

The principles of genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations, are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man, therefore, who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that Book may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.

Noah Webster

From New Hampshire to New Mexico, the Teamsters will continue to fight any bill that weakens the rights of workers or makes it easier for unscrupulous businesses to take away their benefits. Anti-worker groups think they can implement their national plan one state at a time, but the Teamsters will be there every time to oppose them.

Jim Hoffa

It reduces the prospects for recovering species, it weakens the scientific foundations for decision-making, and it takes taxpayer dollars away from conservation efforts.

Jamie Rappaport Clark

The bill weakens state and federal environmental standards ... and gives a break to wealthy oil companies while doing little or nothing to affect oil prices.

Sherwood Boehlert

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Etty Hillesum

He said he was tired. The idea of a pitcher wearing out is ridiculous. He weakens because he's not in condition. I was never taken out of a game because I was weak. I was taken out because I was getting hit.

Elden Auker

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Edgar Quinet