Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect. — Cyril Burt Copy Share Image
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related… — Leonard L. Berry Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results.… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects. — Barry Boehm Copy Share Image
All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
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