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• Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Affliction, Christ

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, Mind, Age

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• For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

  Mason Cooley

  Immaturity, Literature, Being Immature

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• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Dunces, Consolation

  "Essay on the Literary Character" by Isaac D'Israeli, Preface p. xxix, and Vol. I, p. 187, 1795.

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• Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Forgiving, Enough

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.826, GENERAL PRESS

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• Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Morality, Intellect

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.219

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• I'm a good person, but with many defects.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Good Person, Be Good, Persons

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• Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Christian, Years, America

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• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

  John Adams

  Nature, Money, Ignorance

  John Adams' Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. August 23, 1787.

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• The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Birth Defects, May

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• 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.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Acceptance, Feelings, Doe

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

  Jules Renard

  Faults, Blame, Clarity

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.280, Tin House Books

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• A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Faults, Blame

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2267, Delphi Classics

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• One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Eggs, Meat, Use

  Speech, St. Louis, Mo., 31 May 1916. The Oxford English Dictionary documents usage of the term weasel word as early as 1900.

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• All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Luxury, Parent

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• All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Alcohol, Soma

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• 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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Crush, Powerful, Men

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

  Owen Feltham

  Gold, World, Fool

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• What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

  Lynne Truss

  Personality, Comes And Goes

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• Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Character, Weakness

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• One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Use, Tendencies

  Speech, St. Louis, Mo., 31 May 1916. The Oxford English Dictionary documents usage of the term weasel word as early as 1900.

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• Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Quality, Faults

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• When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn't a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Pregnancy, Miscarriage

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• The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Overcoming, Belief

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• Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

  Herodotus

  Time, History, Eternity

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