Defective Quotes

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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect… — Thomas Aquinas
These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline;… — Sun Tzu
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and… — Thomas Jefferson
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications… — Noah Webster
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being… — Robin G. Collingwood
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill… — Margaret Mead
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot… — Albertus Magnus
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel
Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that… — Michel de Montaigne
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform… — Laozi
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever… — Thurgood Marshall
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full… — Alexander Hamilton
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not… — Confucius
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end… — Ernest Hemingway
The secret of survival is a defective imagination. — John Banville
Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be… — George Washington
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective — James Madison
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness… — Margaret Sanger
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. — Margaret Sanger

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