Perfectly Quotes
1695 Perfectly quotes by 1227 unique authors
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Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.
— Sean Stephenson
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
— Oscar Wilde
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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is…
— George Polya
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Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
— Bertrand Russell
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A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
— Doug Larson
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A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.
— William Lyon Phelps
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Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing -…
— Rajneesh
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Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing - that's perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful - if you have time,…
— Rajneesh
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No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do, and you will…
— Rajneesh
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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
— Honore de Balzac
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Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory…
— Henry Van Dyke
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First become alone. First start enjoying yourself. First love yourself. First become so authentically happy that if nobody comes it doesn't matter; you are full,…
— Rajneesh
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Rich people work hard and believe it's perfectly appropriate to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide for others. Poor people…
— T. Harv Eker
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is…
— Byron Katie
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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly…
— Vince Lombardi
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The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to…
— Ayn Rand
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Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding…
— T. Harv Eker
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We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that…
— Robert Morrison MacIver
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It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.
— G. H. Hardy
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have just instructed Laxmi to make a small temple for smoking here in the ashram. But you have to go very alert, aware, meditative!…
— Rajneesh
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