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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great… — Edward Abbey
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. — Edward Abbey
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the… — Henry Adams
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. — Edmund Burke
The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are… — Frederic Bastiat
Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can… — Thomas Jefferson
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,… — Thomas Jefferson
When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound… — Galen Rowell
And never resist a perfect moment. — Terry Pratchett
You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'… — Margaret Atwood
It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know… — Steve Yzerman
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… — Lucinda Williams
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual… — James Madison
I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok. — Lorde
There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience. — Rohinton Mistry
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great… — Abraham Maslow
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what… — William James
I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a more… — Manny Farber
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy… — John F. Kennedy
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… — Henry A. Kissinger
It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect. — E. L. James
I thank God that I wasn't born perfect. — Bob Fosse
Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person. — Leo Tolstoy

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