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«The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors»
«Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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admirable, affectation, beneficence, clandestine, defect, home in, indicates, prospect, savoir-faire, underlies, usefulness
«The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them»
«The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Christianity
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and others, classes, consequences, defect, ethics, fundamental, grounds, labels, sins, social class, social classes
«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.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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afflictions, anxieties, before Christ, christ, defect, guiltier, guilty, He Is Guilty, not guilty, passion, regard, share, sins, The Passion
«There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.»
«There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to»
«Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Pain,
Revenge
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anticipation, Big Lie, defect, therein
«There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches»
«The defect of the body which leads to sin is the mud puddle, and this mind is the frog, which does not appreciate the lotus flower at all.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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defect, lotus, lotus flower, mud, mud puddle, puddle, puddles
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