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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
— William Penn
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
— Thomas Nagel
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.
— Emanuel Lasker
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
— P.D. James
I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.
— Phillip Lopate
God did not create you halfheartedly;
God created you wholeheartedly.
What others see as defective,
God sees as a masterpiece. — Matshona Dhliwayo
God created you wholeheartedly.
What others see as defective,
God sees as a masterpiece. — Matshona Dhliwayo
I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge
— Douglas Preston
A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.
— Joanna Russ
I thought the whole point of having a gay brother was that they were supposed to be all cool and shit. I've got a defective gay.
— T.J. Klune
Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress.
— Abhijit Naskar
Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.
— Florence King
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
— Clarence Darrow
But it was too late. I was down the steps and out the door, where the warm night air almost felt like forgiveness.
— Simmone Howell
Maybe women would finally be considered fully formed human beings, instead of off-brand men with defective genitals. Maybe
— Lindy West
What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?
— Morley Safer
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
— Evelyn Waugh
I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
— Ernst Mach
I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.
— Peter Singer
Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.
— Christopher Hitchens
Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.
— Augustine Of Hippo
No one knows the cost of a defective product - don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
— W. Edwards Deming
I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.
— Evelyn Waugh
I forgot the defective can be more than the whole
— Thomas Hardy
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.
— Margaret Sanger
She was a defective child-bearing machine. She destroyed herself automatically while giving birth to Dwayne.
— Kurt Vonnegut
No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.
— W. Edwards Deming
Nothing is so defective as those laws which correct defects.
— Blaise Pascal
A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
— Arthur Brisbane
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
— Richard E. Pattis
To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.
— Orson Scott Card
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.
— Walter Lippmann
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Gone was the insignificant, defective girl. I was some kind of f**king comic book vigilante & it felt amazing!
— Ripley Patton
I'm not defective. I want to be touched. I've denied myself this most basic of human comforts my whole life and I'm ready to move on.
— J.A. Huss
We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
— Samuel Johnson
And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time.
— M. Scott Peck
A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human being.
— Merle Fossum
But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences.
— Napoleon Hill
Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective
— Bertrand Russell
If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.
— Ted Nugent
I am very defective in all duties ... In prayer I wander and am formal ... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.
— William Carey
I shudder to think how many turkeys have given their lives in the name of my defective pancreas.
— Liz Czukas
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective
— James Madison
Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.
— George Bernard Shaw
In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.
— Herbert M. Shelton
George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There is nothing worse than climbing a ladder to the top, only to discover that it is leaning on the wrong wall. That is DEFECTIVE SUCCESS.
— Fela Durotoye
From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.
— Tony Attwood
Myth 2: If You're Not Happy, You're Defective
— Russ Harris
Whether idyllic or defective, relationships are the fabric of life.
— John Tracy Wilson
Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.
— Hermann Minkowski
He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights, wired in series, must all go out if even one bulb is defective.
— J.D. Salinger
In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked that she was, and forgot that the defective can more than the entire.
— Thomas Hardy
My heart was defective. It was defecting a little more each day.
— Christopher Barzak
The secret of survival is a defective imagination.
— John Banville