D Quotes
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“Defect-free software does not exist.”
“Defecte, originàriament, deuria voler dir tant com dèficit i només això: una mena o altra de dèficit. La idea de defecte és oposada i simètrica a la 1a idea d’excés: “pecar per defecte o per excés”. Resulta curiós, tanmateix, que, de tota manera, també la majoria dels excessos acostumin a rebre, en el llenguatge usual, la qualificació de defectes. Mancança i sobreabundància són, de vegades, i en termes contradictoris, equivalents.”
Source: Diccionari per a ociosos
“Defective souls have an uncanny way of finding each other. They have built-in homing beacons that light up whenever they come close to another soul whose wavelength closely matches their own. The act of coming too close will inadvertently sear them together.”
Source: Taste of Hell
“Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.”
“Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)
“Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.”
“Defects of empirical knowledge have less to do with the ways we go wrong in philosophy than defects of character do: such things as the simple inability to shut up; determination to be thought deep; hunger for power; fear, especially the fear of an indifferent universe”
Source: The Plato Cult: and Other Philosophical Follies
“Defence is our best attack.”
“Defence lawyers use the term "duress" to describe the use of force, coercion or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the commission of a crime. When duress is applied to the emotionally unstable the result can be as violent as it is unpredictable.”
“Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.”
“Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.”
“Defend my honor - Protect my pride”
“Defend my honor protect my pride the good advice i always hated but looking back it made me greater .. u make me laugh u make me hoarse from yelling at you and getting at u.”
“Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.”
“Defend organizational change. Inevitable resistance can be mitigated if the change is carefully discussed, planned, embraced, communicated and ultimately defended.”
Source: Leadership That Rocks
“Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.”
“Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.”
“Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.”
“Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.”
“Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.”
“Defend the fairies!”
Source: The Stonewall Reader
“Defend the rights of someone you disagree with today, so that your rights can be defended tomorrow.”
“Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.”
“Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords”
“Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.”
“Defend your leadership roles with your true character. Never attack your own aspirations with corruption and unfaithfulness! Keep calm and be honest!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Defend yourselves! If people don't defend their rights, they lose them.”
“Defendamo-nos de dizer que há leis na natureza. Existem apenas necessidades: não existe ninguém que comande ou obedeça, ninguém que infrinja. Quando souberdes que inexistem fins, sabereis igualmente que inexiste acaso; pois, unicamente sob um mundo de fins é que a palavra “acaso” toma sentido. Excusemo-nos de dizer que a morte é o contrário da vida. A vida não passa de uma variedade de morte e variedade mui rara. Defendemo-nos de acreditar que o mundo cria incessantemente o novo. Inexistem substâncias eternamente duráveis; a matéria é um engano semelhante ao deus dos eleatas.
Quando acabaremos com nossos cuidados e nossas precauções? Quando deixaremos de ser obscurecidos por todas essas sombras de Deus? Quando teremos despojado dos atributos divinos a natureza? Quando teremos direito, nós homens, de nos tornarmos naturais, com a natureza pura, reencontrada, liberada?”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Defendants have not explained how allowing same-sex marriage between two consenting adults will at all prevent heterosexual spouses from caring for their biological children.”
“Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented no evidence of any such effect. Indeed, they cannot even explain the manner in which, as they predict, children of opposite-sex couples will be harmed. Their other contentions are equally without merit.”
“Defenders of industrial agriculture like to brag that Americans enjoy the cheapest food in the world. Today it's hard to know if that's a boast or an indictment.”
Source: Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
“Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half of the inmates are violent offenders. This system is about protecting the public from violent crime." This type of statement is highly misleading.”
“Defenders of the system will counter by saying this drug war has been aimed at violent crime. But that is not the case. The overwhelming majority of people arrested in the drug war have been arrested for relatively minor, non-violent drug offenses.”
“Defending all persecuted is true act of khalsa.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.”
“Defending mediocrity is exhausting.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“Defending only your democratic values does nothing if you fail to procure humanity, human rights, and fairness.”
“Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries.”
“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.”
“Defending unpopular positions is what lawyers do”
“Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.”
“DEFENSA DEL COS HUMÀ. El cos es venja de la tirania de l’esperit amb el simple fet de morir-se.”
Source: Aforismes
“Defense can't guard two things in a row.”
“Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition bureaucracy and win more of the shrinking number of contracts.”
Source: The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
“Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.”
“Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.”
“Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.”
“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.”
“Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.”
“Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper”