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"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."
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"Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches?Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse.Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods."
"I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting."
"If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe."
"The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece."
"However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious."
"I like flaws. I think they make things interesting."
"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."
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"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen."
"The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?"
"Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills."
"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."
"Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people."
"Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries."
"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."
"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."
"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."
"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
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