Defects Quotes
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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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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
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Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
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Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.
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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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About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.
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There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.
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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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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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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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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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On golf: One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
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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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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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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.
