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• Some people think, Swami calls himself a powerful magnet, but He is unable to attract us. The fault lies in them only.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Powerful, Lying, Thinking

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• Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Tears, Together

  Remarks at the Department of State, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 19, 2011.

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• Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

  Washington Allston

  Men, Idols

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.172, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Wrong Number, Ideas

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• A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Self, World

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

  Joel Osteen

  Love, People, Healthy

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.

  David Gemmell

  Taken, Men, People

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 23, May 1, 1988.

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• The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from a desire to compose an image for cinema. It is not my fault that when I go to Ramallah there is a checkpoint and therefore it enters my film. Tell me a way to avoid that politicized image. The fact is that the police are everywhere, the army everywhere and occupation is total. Whether it's a love story or a thriller, you place the camera and these realities will cross the frame.

  Elia Suleiman

  Art, Humorous, Army

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents; why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?

  Peter Kreeft

  Sex, Divorce, Responsibility

  Peter Kreeft (2002). “Three Approaches to Abortion: A Thoughtful and Compassionate Guide to Today's Most Controversial Issue”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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• You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.

  Alicia Witt

  Crazy, Self, Tragedy

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• The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Men, Land, Feet

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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• The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Foundation, Depth

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...

  Conor Oberst

  Mean

  "Soul Singer In A Session Band". Song by Conor Oberst, 2007.

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• It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

  Jim Butcher

  Motorcycle, Wheels, Huge

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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• The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.

  Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

  Artist, Able, Talent

  Letter to Sophie Brzeska-Savage Messiah By H S (Jim) Ede Heinimann, 1931.

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• Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Sometimes, Sin

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• When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Wicked, Virtue

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• To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Pedants, Ridiculous

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.72

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• The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Shapes, Arms, Certain

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friendship, Suffering, May

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• Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.

  Rose Macaulay

  Travel, People, Together

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• As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Regret, Humble, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.193

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• How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

  B. C. Forbes

  Tongue, Blame, Loser

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• One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

  Joseph Addison

  Wrath, Safety, Atheism

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