Defective Quotes

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Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.

From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.

A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

The defective can be more than the entire.

Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.

But it was too late. I was down the steps and out the door, where the warm night air almost felt like forgiveness.

Man is flawed