Steve Jobs

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

American Businessman

Hugo Chavez

I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.

Statesman

Lou Holtz

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.

American Coach

Charles Spurgeon

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

British Clergyman

Francois Fenelon

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

French Clergyman

Herman Melville

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.

American Novelist

Voltaire

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

French Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

American Philosopher

Quentin Blake

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

English Cartoonist

The term often implies something undesirable or unwanted in an object or system.

Negative Connotation

'Defect' can suggest varying levels of severity, from minor to critical.

Potential Severity

Some defects are not immediately apparent and may be discovered later.

Not Always Visible

As a verb, 'defect' involves a serious change, like leaving one's country or party.

Significant Change

It can imply negative judgment, suggesting disloyalty or betrayal.

Imply Disapproval

A medical defect is usually an inborn condition, not a result of choice.

Beyond Control

Speaking of medical defects requires sensitivity to avoid offending someone.

Sensitive Topic

Such defects can vary in impact, from minor inconveniences to major disabilities.

Varied Impact

 is looking at these unique sensory specialists, the bats, and we have looked at genes that cause blindness when there's a defect in them, genes that cause deafness when there's a defect in them, and now we can predict which sites are most likely to cause disease. So bats are also important for our health,

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 Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires. Yet, our passionate cravings are defects, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of suffering. Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire

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 And it was a very emotional moment. What you see here is a subject coming in our lab. This is a face for us. So we take the real face of a subject, we reduce the complexity, because not everything is in your face -- lots of features and defects and asymmetries come from your life.

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 towers exposes a major defect in the controlled demolition theory the elevator upgrade referred to by truthers might have provided access to the core columns but a large demolition team would still have needed to work in secret to break through the gypsum board walls

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 to calculate the effect of gravity he had been unable to figure out how it really works how is it that the Sun 93 million miles away somehow defect the motion of the earth how does the Sun reach out across empty inert space and exert influence and that as a task to a

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 and by fall, they’d unmasked a more horrible truth. Thalidomide, widely used by pregnant women, caused severe birth defects. Thousands of babies died in utero, and tens of thousands more were born with extra appendages, shorter limbs, or no limbs at all.

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 One, 3D printing takes forever. There are mushrooms that grow faster than 3D printed parts. The layer by layer process leads to defects in mechanical properties, and if we could grow continuously, we could eliminate those defects.

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 naturally part of a human spectrum and not as defects. And this is something that I agree to completely. If autism was seen as part of a natural human spectrum, then the world could be designed to work better for autistic people.

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 thereby making women's bodies an instrument of state economic policy. Children who couldn't be supported by their families were raised in government orphanages. Children with birth defects were labeled incurables,

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 that companies are starting to look at prospective male employees and raise an eyebrow if they didn't in fact take their leave when they had kids. That means that it's starting to seem like a character defect