Defects Quotes
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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.
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True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.
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There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.
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About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.
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By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
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Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.
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Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
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We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.
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On golf: One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
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The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
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"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.
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The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.
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If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.
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I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.
