#defect

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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.


Benjamin Disraeli


#gladstone #redeeming #single #william

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.


Thomas Fuller


#defect #depends #grasping #judgment #many

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.


W. Somerset Maugham


#friends #know #merits #our #rather

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.


W. Somerset Maugham


#defect #dull #grave #perfection

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.


Herman Melville


#brief #crying #deep #defect #help

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.


Dixie Lee Ray


#economic #economic growth #equivalent #government #growth

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


Marquis de Sade


#his #less #lovable #man #may

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


Jonathan Swift


#cannot #concealed #defect #ought #overcome

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.


Steve Jobs


#birth #child #defect #easier #experimental

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?


Marcello Mastroianni


#argue #because #besides #course #defects