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• The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lame, Study, Results

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.120, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Men

  Sun-tzu, Hagopian Institute (2008). “Art of War, Plain English Edition: One of the Greatest Strategy Books in the History of the World, Now in an Easy to Read Version”, p.64, Hagopian Institute

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• The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Book, Men

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• It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political station. When a citizen gives his vote to a man of immorality , he abuses his civic responsibilty. He sacrifices not only his own interest but that of his neighbor, and he betrays the interest of his country.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Religious, Sacrifice

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• It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the Scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness. But if we had no divine instruction on the subject, our own interest would demand of us a strict observance of the principle of these injunctions. . . .

  Noah Webster

  Hate, Men, Views

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• I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Hate, People, Phrases

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• Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

  Bob Dylan

  Sound, Restless, Currents

  Source: www.needsomefun.net

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• My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Children, Sensual, Adults

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• It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.

  Octavius Winslow

  Heart, Views, Shallow

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• It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Party, Taken, Pride

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• We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

  Norman Cousins

  Philosophy, Mistake, America

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• The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.

  William Fleming

  Perfection, Different, Sculpture

  William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.230

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• By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mother, Children, Father

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• My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Air, Space, Analysis

  Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.135, MIT Press

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• Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

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• Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

  Hermann Minkowski

  Color, Heaven, Arrogance

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• If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman to have superior capacities, both actual and potential, for rationality, self-consciousness, communication and anything else that can plausibly be considered morally significant.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Communication, Animal

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• For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

  John Calvin

  Confused, Book, Two

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.

  Sam Houston

  Children, Son, Opportunity

  Sam Houston (1941). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1828-1858”

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• Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

  Thomas Szasz

  Names, Molecules, Looks

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• Mistaken
  regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human
  life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as
  are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the
  unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.

  Madison Grant

  Law, Race, Community

  Madison Grant (1922). “The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History”

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• Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.

  Walter Lippmann

  Organization, Public Opinion, Newspapers

  1922 Public Opinion, ch.1.

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• A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Art, Intelligent, Voice

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• In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.

  Francis Parkman

  Character, Race, Ambitious

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.286, Library of America

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• A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Nice, Years, Might

  "Computer Networks". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1981.

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