"This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults."
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"Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition."
"He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault."
"One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be."
"There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?"
"By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else."
"To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature."
"The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary."
"Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves."
"When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself."
"One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults."
"Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry."
"What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs."
"Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens."
"To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs."
"Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault."
"It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation."
"It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me."
"The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons."
"At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer."