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Quotes Tagged "defect"

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say β€˜I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.
β€” Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Tags: truth, society, shortsightedness, potential, human-beings, defect
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
β€” W. Somerset Maugham
Tags: apt, defect, dull, grave, perfection
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
β€” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tags: circumstances, defect, repair, character, change
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
β€” Benjamin Disraeli
Tags: defect, redeeming, william, single
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
β€” Mason Cooley
Tags: defect, immaturity, many, ideal
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
β€” William Hazlitt
Tags: defect, shining, another, some, quality
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
β€” Robert Lowell
Tags: defect, too, soon, youth
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