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No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. — Mitch Albom

Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. — Henry Becque

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. — Saul Kripke

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be. — Ambrose Bierce

defect corrections have more than a 50 percent chance of being wrong the first time — Steve McConnell

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. — Anna Quindlen

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect — Steven Pressfield

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate. — Mal Peet

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. — John Major

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. — John Fowles

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision. — Charles Babbage

Your life-blood is humanism. If it flows pure and clear, everything would happen nicely in the world - every defect in the society shall be healed. — Abhijit Naskar

The world is like a mirror; it reflects (shows) everything exactly the way it is. If there is a defect, it will reflect (show) that defect. — Dada Bhagwan

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy ... — Rebecca West

It is a human defect
to try to know one's self by the self of another. — Robert Penn Warren

What's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester? — Jim Norton

The men of this party had both the quality and the defect of frankness in their opinions. — Leo Tolstoy

Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning? — Django Wexler

Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment. — Narendra Modi

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. — Bertrand Russell

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity. — Ouida

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. — Kathryn Stockett

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic. — David Stove

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. — Lu Xun

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being. — Jacques Lacan

I have the defect of being more
sincere than persons wish. — Moliere

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. — Matthew Arnold

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. — Lillian Smith

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. — Max Beerbohm

The defect which one period of life fastens upon us, another will remove. — Publilius Syrus

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. — John Calvin

Stupid is forgivable, but ignorance is intolerable. The first is a birth defect, the second is a choice. — Lucee Lovett

But the lack of a sense of humor was an insurmountable defect, in my opinion. — Jeaniene Frost

The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect
it is always cautious in the wrong place. — Wilkie Collins

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment. — Edmund Burke

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect. — Baron De Montesquieu

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. — Noam Chomsky

Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure. — Andrew Murray

we are most judgmental of the defect we've just given up. — Judi Hollis

Our desires are insatiable. We seek from the limited the unlimited. We must fail. Our insatiability is a third incurable defect in human life. — Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. — John Henry Newman

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. — Isak Dinesen

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another. — Fred Brooks

The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate. — Rosa Montero

the law clearly stated that a man with a physical defect could not be king. — Devdutt Pattanaik

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. — Condoleezza Rice

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading. — Charlotte M. Mason

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth. — Susanna Centlivre

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort