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• Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society. Thousands are not ashamed to say that they regard the Bible as an old obsolete Jewish book, which has no special claim on our faith and obedience, and that it contains many inaccuracies and defects. In a day like this, the true Christian should be able to set his foot down firmly, and to render a reason of his confidence in God's Word. He should be able by sound arguments to show good cause why he thinks the Bible is from heaven, and not of men.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Book, Men

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• We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Appreciation, Quality

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• Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from calling your name and setting you apart. He placed you on the earth at a certain time for a pre-decided purpose.

  Steven Furtick

  Names, Purpose, Calling

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.38, Multnomah

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• Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Real, Mistake

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1284, Manonmani Publishers

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• All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Anchors, Mind, Obstacles

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• We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

  Philip Neri

  Wish, Bears, Littles

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• Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Language, Guides, Insight

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Fall, Men

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• If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

  Josemaria Escriva

  Ifs

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• There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do that, so we'll have to live with the defects. It's amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don't see the big picture.

  Charlie Munger

  Teaching, People, American Universities

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• I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

  Edmonia Lewis

  Girl, Teacher, Want

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• Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

  Samuel Johnson

  Reading, Remember, Injury

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.319

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• Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another's defects.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Men, Saint, Charity

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• It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

  Jean Reno

  Thinking, Actors, Want

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• The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.

  Rebecca West

  Fate, Men, Cells

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• It is a fearful thing to hate whom God hath loved. To look upon another-his weaknesses, his sins, his faults, his defects is to look upon one who is suffering. He is suffering from negative passions, from the same sinful human corruption from which you yourself suffer. This is very important: do not look upon him with judgmental eyes of comparison, noting the sins you assume you'd never commit. Rather, see him as a fellow sufferer, a fellow human being who is in need of the very healing of which you are in need. Help him, love him, pray for him do unto him as you would have him do unto you.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Hate, Eye, Healing

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• When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

  Carlos Beltran

  Baseball, Jesus, Heart

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• We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Quality, Ridiculous, Made

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

  Anne Lamott

  New Relationship, Character, Miracle

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• Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Thinking, Light

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.417, CUA Press

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• The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.

  Alexander Kotov

  Attitude, Learning, Self

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• Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Christian, Spiritual, Birth Defects

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• Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects, and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which...cannot be trusted.

  John Gofman

  Cancer, Health, Birth Defects

  John Gofman's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1992.

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• Children have but little charity for one another's defects

  Mark Twain

  Children, Charity, Littles

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3587, GENERAL PRESS

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• I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.

  Mindy Kaling

  Personality, Underdog, Refuse

  "Sundance: Lena Dunham, Kristen Wiig and Your Other Favorite Female Comedians on Misogyny, Sex Scenes, and Their Secret Weapons" by Emily Buder, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2015.

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