"Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections."
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"Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not."
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"The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism."
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"My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection."
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"There is no deformity But saves us from a dream."
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"We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves."
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"... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection."
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"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways."
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"It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part."
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"The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy"
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"So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with."
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"It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it."
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"There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton."
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"It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of human reason, may entirely renounce all belief and opinion, it is impossible for him to persevere in this total scepticism, or make it appear in his conduct for a few hours."
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"The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals."
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"All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world."
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"The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection."
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"Existence is an imperfection."
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"It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection."
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"Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal."
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