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• It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Different Opinions, Economics

  "On Liberty: Mill's Works".

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• Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

  Winston Churchill

  Imperfect World, Goal, Brainstorming

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law, imply intelligent planning and purpose. Nothing happens of itself. Nowhere, in the age-old experience of man, has continued order been found except as the product of intelligent direction.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Intelligent, Men, Order

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• Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Law, Imperfection, Eternity

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Calvinism”, p.10

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• Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.

  Robert Grudin

  Life, Stress, Future

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

  Ronald Reagan

  Humble, Government, Order

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• [T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

  George Washington

  Foundation, Empires, Constitution

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.184

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• It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

  James Madison

  Government, Evil, Perfect

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

  Julianne Moore

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Real

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• Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

  William James

  Mean, Language, Communicate

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• Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you want to improve a person, help him embrace a higher working goal-a standard, an ideal-and he will do his own 'making over' far more effectively than you can do it for him.

  David Packard

  Inspiring, Men, People

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• Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Two, People, Funny Marriage

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• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Views, Order

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1995.

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• The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions, is an odd concept. In my youth I was running from my family to try to find out who I was-their influence distracted me. Now I see what a powerful hold they have, no matter what.

  Susan Minot

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me.

  Amanda Bynes

  Imperfect Person, Perfect For Me, Persons

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• Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

  Branford Marsalis

  Inspiring, Men, Perfect

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• Because we need Christmas we had better understand what it is and what it isn't. Gifts, holly, mistletoe, and red-nosed reindeer are fun as traditions, but they are not what Christmas is really all about. Christmas pertains to that glorious moment when the Son of our Father joined his divinity to our imperfect humanity.

  Hugh W. Pinnock

  Fun, Father, Son

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• At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.

  Katrina Kenison

  Past, Nostalgia, Used

  Katrina Kenison (2013). “Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church.

  Gordon Fee

  Christian, People, Church

  Gordon D. Fee (1994). “Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God”, p.81, Baker Academic

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• If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

  John Drinkwater

  Circumstances, Ifs, Values

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Reflection, Decision, Information

  Donald Rumsfeld (2011). “Known and Unknown: A Memoir”, p.905, Penguin

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• While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, Imperfect Person

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• Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

  Benjamin Rush

  Dream, Sleep, Ideas

  Benjamin Rush (1839). “An Inquiry into the influence of Physical Causes upon the Moral Faculty. Delivered before a meeting of the American Philosophical Society, etc”, p.7

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• The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Baptized In, Community, Baptism

  "Dominus Iesus". 2000.

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• The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, People, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress”, p.444

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