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• Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ancient Literature, Want, Sanity

  Matthew Arnold, Robert Henry Super (1960). “On the Classical Tradition”, p.17, University of Michigan Press

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• I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.

  Ian Wilmut

  Engineering, Ideas, Would Be

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• In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Moon, Journey, Circles

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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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• Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Birth Defects, Grace

  Philip Yancey (2009). “The Jesus I Never Knew Participant's Guide: Six Sessions on the Life of Christ”, p.23, Zondervan

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• Only the great can afford to have great defects.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Faults

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• The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

  Moliere

  Philosophy, Heart, Exercise

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• In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Perfect, Weakness, Philosopher

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• The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

  Samuel Johnson

  Errors, Inexperience, Inability

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “The Idler: With Additional Essays”, p.85

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• Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Choices, Vices

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.1833, 谷月社

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• The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

  John Fowles

  Age, Failing, Virtue

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• Talent is often a defect in character.

  Karl Kraus

  Character, Talent

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• The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Self, Essence

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1996). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature”, p.17, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

  Jacques Maritain

  Country, Patriotism, Tolerate

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• Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Love Is, Feelings, Religion

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• To Amma, all are Her children. In Amma's eyes no defect of Her children is serious. But when She is considered as the guru, it is essential for the growth of the disciples that they conduct themselves according to the tradition. Amma will pardon all the mistakes of Her children, but nature has certain laws. That is what brings punishment for our sins. Children, we should be able to take any sorrow or suffering as conducive for our growth.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Mistake, Eye

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• Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

  Arthur Helps

  Time, Play, Long

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Companions of My Solitude”, p.239

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• Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Revolution, Plant

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• For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

  Werner Herzog

  Memories, Civilization, Serious

  "Werner Herzog: ‘Film Is Not the Art of Scholars, But of Illiterates’". Interview with Leticia Kentsept, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 1977.

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• One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

  Jack Abramoff

  Personality, Add, Bunch

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• The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Exercise, Men, Two

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• Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.

  George Papandreou

  Taken, Opportunity, Europe

  "My Interview With Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou... From the Top of the Acropolis". Interview with Steven Hill, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2011.

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• In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Taken, Artist

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• The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

  Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

  Love Is, Age, Obstacles

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• Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Character, Yield, Evil

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