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I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

~Albert Ellis

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Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.

~Andrea Seigel

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I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

~Barbara Broccoli

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One of the great things about playing a fallible superhero, one who doesn't necessarily have superpowers, is that the stakes are raised by the prospect of them perishing.

~Charlie Cox

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We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.

~Chris Pine

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I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

~Claire Danes

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I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

~Columbus Short

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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

~Damian Lewis

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It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

~Dan Ariely

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I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

~Daniel Kahneman

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