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"It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling."
"Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness."
"All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly."
"Remember, in the vast infinity of life, all is perfect, whole, and complete... and so are you."
"In the infinity of life where I am, All is perfect, whole and complete, I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete."
"Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed."
"When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch."
"None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others."
"You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy."
"I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you."
"No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully."
"No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz."
"I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say she loves it and doesn't want to change anything."
"I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling."
"You are in the perfect position to get there from here."
"What is the definition of procrastination? It means: I can feel within my Energy sensor that this action is not in perfect alignment at this time."
"Chihuahuas are the perfect pet if you don't have a person in your life who screams and shits their pants every time there's a noise."
"We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior over one hour in an artificial situation. This was a perfect instance of a general rule that I call WYSIATI, "What you see is all there is." We had made up a story from the little we knew but had no way to allow for what we did not know about the individual's future, which was almost everything that would actually matter. When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions like "He will be a star.""
"The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it."
"Cotton candy is the perfect snack for when I'm in the mood to eat dry, scratchy fabric."
