Defective Quotes
92 Defective quotes by 82 unique authors
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No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.
— W. Edwards Deming
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
— P.D. James
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George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Destructive Failure: Reveals limitations and weakness, highlights your shortcomings and when not processed correctly, keeps you feeling inadequate and defective. Productive failure: Reveals limitations and…
— June Hunt
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of…
— J C Ryle
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This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects,…
— Pope John Paul II
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The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the…
— Adolf Hitler
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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
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To think, "I am a sinner, oh Father, save me," is a defective approach! You should say, "I am your son, I am your daughter,…
— Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
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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
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An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are…
— Ellen G. White
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Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are…
— Ellen G. White
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It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt…
— Norman Cousins
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
— Evelyn Waugh
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I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector';…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.
— Hermann Minkowski
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Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the…
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and…
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
Who Wrote These Defective Quotes
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