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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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MAHATMA GANDHI We have not determined whether or not there is a defect in the first place,
RAE TYSON If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.
WILLIAM PRESCOTT I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
MAL PEET No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too m...
JOHN MAJOR William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The eye of Faith needs no binocular, because it suffers no defect.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. But that is not all, tha...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a de...
LAO TZU To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a de...
LAO-TZU He has not one single redeeming defect
BENJAMIN DISRAELI For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
MASON COOLEY There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.
EVA GABOR We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
JOHN CALVIN I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels
JOHN CALVIN Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no mat...
FIDEL CASTRO And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ...
HIRO FUJIWARA I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has c...
WERNER HERZOG We struggled to put Sarah through college so that she could become a certified X-ray technician. But...
JAMIE MAUTHE Courage is not having strength to go on,it is going on when you have no strength...
NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
ALEXANDER POPE If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL We have not determined at this time that there is a defect with the switch, but for reasons we still...
KRISTEN KINLEY I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or sp...
MAX BEERBOHM There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, n...
BUDDHA Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When you become a parent, you become a superhero. You realize you have more strength, energy and lov...
KAILIN GOW When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any gr...
A.W. TOZER Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that ...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN We have high hopes that this could become a big part of our business.
JOEL RADFORD A strong woman knows she has strength enough for the journey, but a woman of strength knows that it ...
LUKE EASTER There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster
RICHARD BACH first step in a defect investigation.
RAE TYSON Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
CHARLES DICKENS No strength within, no respect without
KASHMIRI PROVERB Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the...
DEYTH BANGER I can only hope that from the strength of this operation we will become the country we once were.
BENNY ELON Flu is a virus that most people have no immunity or build-up to. It could spread worldwide and becom...
EMILY PALMER The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
HENRY BECQUE The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors
HENRY BECQUE In the last impeachment, there was this defect.
ARCHBISHOP ANGEL LAGDAMEO Cleaning of defects is a critical and necessary step in generating a zero-defect mask blank, because...
DAVID KRICK That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness.
CRISS JAMI Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and ...
CHARLES SPURGEON To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE They folded back on themselves and decided to become the leader of a parade that could have become a...
GROVER NORQUIST If it's not a big story yet, it could become one.
JOSH BIVENS Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ...
MARIA MONTESSORI Arab suburbs will become ghettos and we were warned that there's no guarantee we could visit this pl...
CHRIS TOWNE I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spir...
MAX BEERBOHM After the dinosaurs, it is us the humans that have become the dominant species on planet earth. Howe...
ABHIJIT NASKAR I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of...
BARRY MUNRO Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them s...
SETH GODIN If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
ROBERT LOWELL If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, the...
BRITTANY MURPHY A lot of the public is completely unaware that the strength of the message is not matched by the str...
BARNETT KRAMER You can't become smarter by wanting to be smart, you can't become faster by wanting to be fast, and ...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER Not every birth defect is associated with something we can do to prevent it. But those we can preven...
DR. HEMA DASILVA There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing rever...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadli...
CHRISTOPHER MCDOUGALL These bacteria had a defect that we didn't anticipate. I've never been so happy in my life to be wro...
DANIEL HASSETT Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
QUENTIN BLAKE There's no doubt the strength of our team will be defense. We have a lot of great players on defense...
BILL CHERPAK It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to...
TOM STOPPARD Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become he...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is t...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the...
LU XUN Whether Toyota is going to become No. 1 in the world or not is not something that I know. I am not c...
KATSUAKI WATANABE LADIES!!!! You are not a SEXUAL OBJECT! - not a PUNCHING BAG _ not a target for EMOTIONAL ABUSE! You...
BOLANLE JOHN There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they ...
LEO TOLSTOY Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have e...
BEANIE SIGEL There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no c...
JANE AUSTEN Some strengthening is forecast ... and Maria could be near hurricane strength by Sunday.
JACK BEVEN 'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.
THOMAS FULLER, M.D. 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
THOMAS FULLER Using FGF signaling we can actually rescue the cell proliferation defect, but so far we have not bee...
YANG CHAI There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
JANE AUSTEN We are able to say that we have strength such that no country can attack us because they do not have...
ALI SHAMKHANI The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the w...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single...
BARBARA CORCORAN If she could take my strength. He put his hand on his chest, feeling his heartbeat. If she could hav...
JAN HOLLY Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of...
FRED BROOKS It was absolutely marvelous working for Wolfgang Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no wor...
VICTOR WEISSKOPF When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to...
FRANK GEHRY The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
LILLIAN SMITH You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of th...
ELIZABETH ASTON So may glory from defect arise.
ROBERT BROWNING

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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [G...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The society of women is the element of good manners.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Each one sees what he carries in his heart
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
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