Defective Quotes - Page 5

• Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

  William Penn

  Art, Links, Virtue

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.158

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• there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.

  Jacquetta Hawkes

  Technology, Thinking, Civilization

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• Yes. The original argument is defective. Substitute the word 'male' for 'gay,' and you'll see the flaw: 'Male people cannot be normal. If everyone were male starting tomorrow, the human race would die out, so being male cannot be nature's intended way.' Or you could substitute the word 'female.' In either case, the argument makes no sense: Being male or female is perfectly normal.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Gay, Perfectly Normal, Race

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• We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Desire, Remember

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam”, p.600

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• The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

  Magdi Yacoub

  Heart, Quality, Important

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• It is for the State to take care that the economic conditions are such that the normal man who is not defective in mind or body or will can be useful labor feed, house, and clothe himself and his family. The "right to work" and the "right to a living wage" are just as valid as the rights of person or property.

  Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

  Men, Rights, House

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• Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of others. The well-off then use their acquired political power to refuse to make sacrifices for others. This system brings us a wonderful range of products and experiences for consumers at the top of the privilege scale, but it also degrades and benumbs the workers at the lower end, as Adam Smith and Marx both said.

  Catherine Wilson

  Clever, Sacrifice, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• [In Mexico] they have a VAT tax. We're on a different system. When we sell into Mexico, there's a tax. When they sell in - automatic, 16 percent, approximately. When they sell into us, there's no tax. It's a defective agreement. It's been defective for a long time, many years, but the politicians haven't done anything about it.

  Donald Trump

  Agreement, Years, Long

  Source: time.com

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• In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, when she started talking about this, it was really very recently. She's been doing this for 30 years. And why hasn't she made the [trade] agreements better? The NAFTA agreement is defective.

  Donald Trump

  Agreement, Talking, Years

  Donald Trump's speech at the first Trump-Clinton presidential debate hosted by NBC News' anchor Lester Holt at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Eye, Looks

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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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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• The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Character, Purpose

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.25, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

  James Martineau

  Inspiration, Men, Doubt

  James Martineau (1905). “Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau”

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• A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Mirrors, Newspapers, Reflecting

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• In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Tears, Body, Eating

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• I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Missionary, Tire

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• We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion annually. Securities fraud alone costs four times that. And securities fraud is nothing to the cost of oil spills, price-fixing, and dangerous or defective products. Fraud by health-care corporations alone costs us between $100 billion and $400 billion a year. No three-strikes-and-you're-out for these guys. Remember the S&L scandal? $500 billion.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Years, Oil

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• Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

  Ernst Mach

  Life, Math, Circles

  Ernst Mach (2012). “Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry”, p.45, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys

  Michael Gurian

  Children, Boys, Needs

  Michael Gurian (2000). “The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men”, p.53, Penguin

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• This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations.

  Pope John Paul II

  Roots, Civilization, Economic Inequality

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

  William Carlos Williams

  Dog, Mean, Tree

  1946 Paterson, bk.1, preface.

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• At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind. This belief was twice shaken in the past century; first when Russell and his successors showed how the logic men employ can be defective, and later when Freud and Piaget started to reveal the tortuous ways in which our minds actually develop.

  Jean Piaget

  Past, Men, Law

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• The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.

  Herbert Spencer

  Skills, Political, Humanity

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• What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

  Meat Loaf

  Education, Lying, School

  Song: Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back

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• In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.'

  Colin Angle

  Support, Robots, Lines

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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