Quotes by defect
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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
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General, man is very useful.
He can fly and he can kill.
But he has one defect:
He can think.Source: Poems, 1913-1956 -
General, your tank
is a powerful vehicle
it smashes down forests
and crushes a hundred men.
but it has one defect:
it needs a driver.Source: Poems, 1913-1956 -
He has not a single redeeming defect.
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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
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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.
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer -
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Source: Sceptical Essays -
The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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