"I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down."
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"When you're connected to God, every moment is perfectly perfect."
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"It's all perfect, this Universe we are in. Slow down and enjoy it all."
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"The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art."
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"There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone."
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"Take pains. Be perfect."
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"Silence is the perfect herald of joy."
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"The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility."
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"Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian."
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"Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation."
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"Even in New York City, we've seen some major improvements from the way the system was 20 years ago. There's still a lot to do - we know that training workers and parents, reducing caseload size, developing therapeutic foster care, strengthening kinship care, and putting more emphasis into preventive care are all solutions. Unfortunately, if a child is in a situation where removal from the home becomes neccessary, there's already been trauma. Putting a traumatized child into a "system," not a home, with strangers is creating a perfect storm for further trauma."
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"I try to maintain balance and apply principles the best I can in my daily life. What is the difference between material and spiritual? We are taught that, "God is perfect, ultimately everything that comes from God is perfect." If we fail to recognize something's relationship with the ultimate source, we fail to recognize how to live and utilize things in harmony with God's grace."
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"No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity."
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"It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt."
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"If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!"
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"By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I’m wearing a bright red dress. And there’s a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense."
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"I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right."
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"Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect."
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"You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair."
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"I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans"
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