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If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: Absolute Chicanery Conservative David Defect Entire Financial Focused Heck Modern-Day Movement Out Read Right-Wing Solely Some Sphere Wanted Would Write

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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Defect Redeeming Single William

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There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

~Benjamin Jowett

Topics: Always Anything Anything Else Become Been Defect Else Goal How Important Like Long Money More More Than Anything Once Other Rich Seem Serious Someone Than Things Thinking Understand Wants Who Worthwhile

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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Children Competitive Credit Defect Fathers Fundamental Our Society Them Want

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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: About Afflictions Anxieties Christ Defect Faith Feel Guilty Like Our Passion People Regard Share Sins Some Some People Take Them

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

~Charles Buck

Topics: Also Attain Cannot Commands Defect Degrees Exertion Full God His Law Least Life Perfection Performs Person Powers Requires Saints Which Without

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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

~Chaz Bono

Topics: Alignment Birth Body Brain Complicated Defect Gender Like Neurosis Palate People Percent Things Those Transgender Your Your Body

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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

~Czeslaw Milosz

Topics: Above Acceptance Changes Considered Defect Does Endure Feeling Finds Hard Human Introduced Itself Like Major Material Merely Must Passive Resign Seems

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

~Fred Brooks

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