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The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

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The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

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No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

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The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

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There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.

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Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.

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Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

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Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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