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• Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

  Donald Fehr

  People, Faults, Frailty

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• Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now

  Eyedea

  Agony, Connections, Accepting

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• Were all human beings suddenly 2 become blind, still the sun would shine by day and the stars by night, for these owe nothing 2 the millions who benifit from their light. So were every man on earth 2 become atheist it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is in Himself without regard to any other. To believe in Him adds nothing to His perfections to doubt Him takes nothing away.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Atheist, Stars, Believe

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• Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Exercise, Mind

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• A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

  May-Britt Moser

  Focus, Excellence, Details

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• In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Thinking, Ideas

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.39, Indiana University Press

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• Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Land, America, United States

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• All things are complete within ourselves.

  Mencius

  All Things

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• The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

  John Cheever

  Men, Organization, Helping

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• It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

  Robert Breault

  Hard

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• Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Faults

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• The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Race, Unseen, Rolling

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.48, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Institutions, Collapse, Layout

  Parkinson's Law ch. 6 (1957)

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• "Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called Jesus "Lord" are justified, meaning that they are no longer guilty. Also, they have been given the Spirit, which makes them slaves to Christ rather than to sin. But we all are sinners. Perfection awaits eternity.

  Edward T Welch

  Jesus, Spirit, Sin

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• In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

  Ethan Hawke

  Self, Hollywood, Neurosis

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• The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

  Thomas Berry

  Kids, Diversity, Tolerance

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• People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Best Effort

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• We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Daughter, Common Sense

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• Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Art, Men, Oasis

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• I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Perfect, Pieces

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• I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

  Neil Diamond

  Attitude, Inspiration, Different

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• God created us to be worshipers because it is right that he be known, loved and worshiped. This isn't because he is needy and wishes someone would tell him how special he is. No, it's because he is perfect and the worship of his perfection is holiness in action.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Perfect, Special, Wish

  Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway

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• Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

  Robert Kirkman

  Technology, Different, Matter

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• A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.

  A. L. Rowse

  Morning, Spring, School

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• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  Adam Clarke

  Infinite, Source, Existence

  Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian theology, by A. Clarke, selected from his writings, with a life of the author by S. Dunn”, p.70

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