"Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds."
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"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
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"Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness."
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"There is not one standard definition of beauty or one perfect size."
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"Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe."
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"Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist."
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"Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural."
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"If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow."
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"It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect."
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"I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus."
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"I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you."
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"The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing."
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"The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God."
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"The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new."
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"There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat."
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"I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands."
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"In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels."
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"Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural."
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"There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort."
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"A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods."
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