Weaken Quotes

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To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

- Ken Burns

With this level of failure, it makes little sense to weaken protections for fish,

- Mark Powell

It is unwise to be too sure of one`s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Calls to ?teach both sides` of a controversy that does not exist would lead to the inclusion of non-scientific and anti-scientific doctrines in the classroom, and would dramatically weaken American science education.

- Ken Miller

With Enron and WorldCom and others, this is the last time in the world that the Senate should weaken conflict-of-interest standards.

- Patrick Leahy

No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.

- John Doolittle

(Private accounts) would weaken the system. It would force a reduction in benefits, ... There are some estimates that the reduction in benefits could be as high as 40 percent.

- Harry Hill

It is unwise to be too sure of one`s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

- Adam Loewen

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

- Ahmad Shah

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

- Aly Byorick

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

- Amanda Bird

As soon as you concern yourself with the `good` and `bad` of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

- Amber Sheldon

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

- Andrea Okomski

The real estate market has been an underlying source of support for private consumption. As that market begins to slow and weaken, that would have an impact on private consumption.

- Annemarie Conroy

You had a bunch of people (in the storm`s path) say, `OK, it`s starting to weaken. Don`t worry about it,`

- Art Bruner

It`s clear that the president and his allies in the House are using Katrina as cover for ramming through proposals to weaken the Clean Air Act.

- Arun Natarajan

tenets of critical thinking ... are weakened in our classrooms, we weaken our nation.

- Barb Graff

I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself

- Niccolo Machiavelli