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• We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Life, Funny Marriage

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• A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Hypocrite, Men

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• The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Patience, Practice, Social

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.114, Sophia Institute Press

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• There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Character, Sometimes

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• Never judge a work of art by its defects.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Umpires, Judging

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• Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

  Voltaire

  Character, Men, Reputation

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• 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

  Jobs, Zero, Reality

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• We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Positive, Success, Business

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• William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Gladstone

  "Are Britain's politicians losing the power of speech?" by Peter Hoskin, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 20, 2012.

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• I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

  John Calvin

  Bowels, Looseness

  John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.61, Baker Books

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• The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Diversity, Doe, Needs

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.11, Book Tree

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• However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Experience, Safe

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• Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Suffering, Desire

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• 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

  Memories, Order, Complaining

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• Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Sickness, Mankind

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 100, 1799.

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• 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

  Mother, Found You, Arguing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Knowledge, People

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.42

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• I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

  Max Beerbohm

  Spiritual, Men, Genius

  And Even Now (1920) "No. 2, The Pines"

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

  John Major

  Clever, Stupid, Silly

  1991 Quoted in the Observer, 7 Jul.

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• In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

  Phil Crosby

  Zero, Approach, Items

  "Let's Talk Quality: 96 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask Phil Crosby". Book by Philip B. Crosby, 1989.

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• Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Imperfection, Hocus Pocus

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.167, Penguin

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• The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.

  Victor Manuel Rivera

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Victor Manuel Rivera (2010). “In Search of True Freedom”, p.37, Xulon Press

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• Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

  Edgar Cayce

  Encouraging, Wise, Wisdom

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• Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them

  John Bosco

  Imperfection, Catholic, Trying

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