"The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror."
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"Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start."
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"You will identify yourself either as a body or perfect spirit, as either divided or whole, depending upon how you see others. And, once you understand that, you will be careful about how you think about other people."
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"A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination."
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"Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change."
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"There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces."
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"Death is the perfect knowing."
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"Ring the bells that still can ring."
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
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"The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life."
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"All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying."
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"The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine."
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"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice."
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"The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists."
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"When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit."
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"Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it."
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"Nas is someone who can communicate with the streets and can still keep it real in terms of being human, he doesn't try to be this super perfect person, but has respect for his history and for his ancestors and for spirituality. So Nas always displayed that in his music, while at the same time keeping it hard and something that you can relate to."
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"Anything that can be perfect is very damaging for my psyche."
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"No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord."
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"The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education."
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