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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.
I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.
?Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.
It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.
It is remarkable how surprising Zika has been. This is the first time we have had a mosquito-borne infection that can cause a devastating birth defect.
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
If you don't know what the defect level is, how do you know when to get mad?
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.
For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.
...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.
