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In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you.
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.
US author & journalist
1889 - 1974
I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
Malcolm X - My counselor
Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
If worry were an effective weight-loss program, women would be invisible.
Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.
Dean Krakel - Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
US black nationalist leader
1925 - 1965
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
US mystery novelist
1940 -
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.
R. A. Salvatore - Sojourn
The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being.
English poet & satirist
1788 - 1824
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
US actress & television talk show host
1954 -
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.
One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus
Greek tragic dramatist
496 - 406

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