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Buddhism has helped me understand my defects and has given me the tools to combat them.
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
The more successful I become, the more I want to remain like me, with my defects and insecurities.
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.
Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Very often, I recognize many, many defects, so I try to improve myself every day. I think my voice is very communicative.
No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.
Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.
We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.
I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
My father would tell me my defects but never praise me to my face. The good things about me he would only tell others when I wasn't around.
Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.
Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.
I am happier with my face since I started wearing glasses at 27, because they punctuate it. They also hide one of my biggest defects, my baggy eyes.
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.
There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.