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• By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

  Peter Drucker

  Integrity, Character, Absence

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• Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Thinking, Men

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• We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

  Adam Savage

  Ethos, Methodology

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Suffering, Mud

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.389, editionNEXT.com

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• Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.

  Colin Farrell

  Responsibility, Men, Mess

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.

  Matt Prior

  Mom, Daughter, Baby Girl

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• Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Lying, Humanity, Individuality

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• It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

  John Locke

  Art, Lying, Men

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.373

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• Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Whips

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.212, Palgrave Macmillan

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• A fault is fostered by concealment.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Concealment

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• Try finding love, rather than finding fault.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Finding Love, Trying, Findings

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• A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one fault of the Long Parliament; but more remarkably of Holland, whose assembly first voted themselves from annual to septennial, then for life, and after a course of years, that all vacancies happening by death or otherwise, should be filled by themselves, without any application to constituents at all.

  John Adams

  Years, Long, Ambitious

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.195

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• The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Imperfection, Important

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• Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

  Voltaire

  Men, Perfection, Doe

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• One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Mean, Men, Looks

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• We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

  Robert Barron

  Adept, Seeing

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• I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.

  B. C. Forbes

  Faces, Facts, Addresses

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• The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and they have to link it like a chain. Teachers can't incorporate that. They don't have time; it's not their fault. They don't have the resources to give personal attention to each kid in the classroom.

  Malik Yusef

  Teacher, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you. If you recognize it, your awareness will destroy it. He who rejects this will never know the entrance to the Temple.

  R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

  Errors, Over You, Temples

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• When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

  Epictetus

  Principles, Blame, Starting

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• And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Country, United States, Nations

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• Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

  George Ayittey

  Gone, Orthodoxy, Claims

  "Border Jumpers". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2005.

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• How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Quality, Advancement, Mud

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their behaviour and pardon their faults. This capacity is as invaluable as truth, righteousness, wisdom, non-violence, renunciation, delight and compassion. It is all that one need possess for spiritual advancement.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Compassion, Appreciate

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