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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.
Pele is out of normal patterns and I'm not saying this because I'm a Brazilian. You can't find a defect.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
It is remarkable how surprising Zika has been. This is the first time we have had a mosquito-borne infection that can cause a devastating birth defect.
Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
See, tomato skins are really good at keeping tomato juices inside the tomato, but they have one defect: Moisture can escape from the tops, where the tomatoes were attached to the vine.
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.
Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.
Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.
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 likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.
Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.
What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.