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Letter "D" » defect
«Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.»
Author: Charles Babbage
(Inventor, Mathematician)
| Keywords:
admirable, defect, directed, Englishman, impossibility, propose
«I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| Keywords:
bowel, bowels, defect, looseness, looseness of the bowels
«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»
«OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
conspicuous, defect, ingeniously, naturalist, naturalists, ostrich, pious, The Ostrich, toe-in, toe
«PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply --the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
and so forth, arbiter, attendance, courageous, defect, disputant, disputants, disputes, formerly, International, international affairs, in attendance, physical contact, projectile, propulsion, prudence, rudimentary, settled, spear, The Times
«Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
affront, affronts, aristocracies, defect, degrade, flourish, loyal, monarchies, oppress
«No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
and others, complain, defect, grasping, Order of, perspicuity, regularities, regularity, retain, very much
«Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
apt, defect
«One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.»
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