"This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish."
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"One of the reasons why I had such a horrible draft is that I hosted an eight-hour pool party before the draft. and so I wasn't quite in my perfect drafting form."
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"I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area - in a perfect world I would have loved to stay."
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"It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow."
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"All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious."
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"It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it was something I myself had chosen. If it had problems, these were almost certainly problems that had originated within me."
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"Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur."
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"The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another."
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"I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer."
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"Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present."
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"... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing."
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"Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling."
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"When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning."
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"I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs."
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"That was the thing about Prabhupada, you see. He didn't just talk about loving Krishna and getting out of this place, but he was the perfect example. He talked about always chanting, and he was always chanting. I think that that in itself was perhaps the most encouraging thing for me. It was enough to make me try harder, to be just a little bit better. He was a perfect example of everything he preached."
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"I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears."
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"It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health."
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"A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing."
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