"That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively……" — J C Ryle

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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… — Thomas Aquinas
• These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training;… — Sun Tzu
• The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt… — Thomas Jefferson
• It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are… — Noah Webster
• To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but… — Robin G. Collingwood
• This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician… — Margaret Mead
• Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure… — 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… — Michel de Montaigne
• It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another,… — Laozi
• I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning… — Thurgood Marshall

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