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"So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough."
"Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action."
"The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual."
"I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had."
"Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach."
"Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film."
"Perfection is a disease of a nation."
"Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect."
"Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection."
"If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated."
"Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura."
"It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection."
"We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity."
"What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness."
"I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection."
"Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits."
"Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . ."
"Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being."
"[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind."
"Beauty with character ages better than perfection."
