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• When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Sky, Laughing

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• A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Hero, Fighting

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• This is what love was supposed to feel like.This perfect immersion of two people who were ready and willing to become a part of each other.

  A. Meredith Walters

  Two, People, Immersion

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• Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.

  Robert Walpole

  Hate, Practice, Political

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• The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Soul, Weakness, World

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

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• I believe in the perfect outcome
  of every situation in my life.

  Brian Tracy

  Believe, Outcomes, Situation

  Brian Tracy (2011). “Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Light, Air, Breathe

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 640

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• A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Marriage, Men, Expected

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• Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Faults, Would Be, Certain

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• He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Night, Men, Sky

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.

  Simon Sinek

  Twitter post from Mar 08, 2012

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• After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Design, Java, Aim

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Heart, Simple

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• The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you finally say it, and you get it as perfect as you can make it. Then you're forced to babble freestyle.

  Nick Laird

  Writing, Writing Poetry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

  Ben Jonson

  Life, Summer, June

  'To the Immortal Memory...of...Sir Lucius Carey and Sir H. Morison' (1640)

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• It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Writing, Character

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• The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

  William Hazlitt

  Joy, Heaven, Craving

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.314, Delphi Classics

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• I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

  Hugh Hefner

  Play, Would Be, Quitting

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• Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

  Patrick Henry

  Freedom, Healthy, Vigor

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• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Acting, Actors, Idiot

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• Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Views, Stylist, Language

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• If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

  Tony Judt

  Answers, Improvement, Should

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.109, Penguin

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• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  Victoria Justice

  Want, Want Me

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• In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

  Franz Kafka

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Hurt, Believe, Might

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