A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
quote by Donald Knuth
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The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
quote by Stanislaw Lec
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The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
quote by Josiah Stamp
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
quote by Alan Dershowitz
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
quote by William James
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Weakness limits the strength
The strength of the chain is what its weakest link is.
The strength of the mighty is what his weak point is.
That is why there is a fall for every emperor.
04.01.2000, Karaikudi
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.
Thomas Reid in Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1786)
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I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.
quote by Fritz Hollings
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I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.
quote by King Hussein I
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Take It Easy
When I was boxing in the ring
In 'Frisco back in ninety-seven,
I used to make five bucks a fling
To give as good as I was given.
But when I felt too fighting gay,
And tried to be a dinger-donger,
My second, Mike Muldoon. would say:
"Go easy, kid; you'll stay the longer."
When I was on the Yukon trail
The boys would warn, when things were bleakest,
The weakest link's the one to fail -
Said I: "by Gosh! I won't be weakest."
So I would strain with might and main,
Striving to prove I was the stronger,
Till Sourdough Sam would snap: "Goddam!
Go easy, son; you'' last the longer."
So all you lads of eighty odd
Take my advice - you'll never rue it:
Be quite prepared to meet your God,
But don't stampede yourselves to do it.
Just cultivate a sober gait;
Don't emulate the lively conger;
No need to race, slow down the pace,
Go easy, Pals - you'll linger longer.
poem by Robert William Service
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They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
quote by Christian Nestell Bovee
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love makes the strongest of men weak,
and the weakest of men strong.
poem by Robert Green
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Double Crossed
You have crossed me with a cross that double crossed me in my life.
Shut up im just a weakest link when winter came to wonder wheres wonder. Her soul couldnt rest in peace because of that piece that couldnt give her peace in her pieced heart
poem by Ernest Makuakua
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In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.
quote by Bill Tilden
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Hearing Again From A Student Who Broke Down
her face pale as a fading moon
her hands trembling like the leaves blown by the wind
at dawn
she is
the thin, tiny girl in a row of the brusque and the thick faced
law students, so to speak she has become the weakest link
of their argument
why one has to study law and become a lawyer and compete
for power, money, and position
she finally retreated, broke down somewhere where she says she
screamed without tears, where she writes her poems finally
in inkless pen and imaginary sheets of paper
her mind exploded into some painful shrapnel
that is what happens when you are so true to a vocation
when you do not learn how to fake feelings
and eradicate some emotions
and be the woman and man
tough like steel and shrewd like the fox
or fight matters out like the rats in garbage cans
and yet appear coy like a dove,
they say, this is the battle of the fit and the survival of the fittest
no muscle no guns no spears or swords
it is what they call the decency of words
and logic and sophistry sometimes
she chats with me today, thanking me for the books
for the lightness of being, she blames her stupidities of being
weak, the weakest link of the
argument in law school, she blames her poetry, (she hates my poetry: who says that life is fair? nobody raises a hand)
she says she is now coming to terms with herself
befriends her journal the more, she is taking more breath
regaining her composure
next semester, she will be joining us again,
she promises, no chains, no feelings, a little wit and humor
and nothing fading and not one shall be pale among the brusque
a pachaderm
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Weakest Moments
Well, I hear you downstairs
Youre foolin around with your fathers brother
And your mothers gown
All the old heroes keep comin around
To find you, if youre still at home
So you lie in the sun, watch your body turn to tan
Your skin is oiled with the sweat of a man
He bought you a diamond ring, girl, to wear on your hand
And, baby, hes leaving tomorrow
Chorus:
Yeah, ill be with you in your weakest moments, uh huh
Yeah, ill be with you in your weakest moments
You say you remember when it was your world
And you were mister rubys girl
He gave you dreams and schemes that swirl
Around your head and your body
And when you drink sometimes, you try to liberate
And you stagger in the front yard till you find the gate
That swing on that thin line of love and hate
And baby, just let it go
Chorus:
Yeah, ill be with you in your weakest moments, uh huh
Yeah, ill be with you in your weakest moments
song performed by by John Mellencamp
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Your Troubles Are Making You Strong
One after another
Challenges come, and grab your arm
You ask life, Now whats wrong?
Troubles said: We are making you strong
Living a breezy life
Where no effort tag along
One never realizes what he has
Grasps after struggle short or long
Troubles said: We are making you strong
Remember
When Man helped butterfly in cocoon
Hindered its struggle, made a slit drawn
With swollen body and crippled wings
Would never, but was a destined flown
Troubles said: We were making it strong
Everyone has a talent deeply sown
With no strive, stay hidden and unknown
In weakest moment one become strong
So, cash in hardships, they bring a new dawn
Troubles said: we will make you strong.
poem by Samima Shah
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