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We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to… — Graeme Goldsworthy
Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal… — Aviva Chomsky
God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastlingly. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an… — W. Somerset Maugham
Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men… — George MacDonald
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. — George Santayana
Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there. — Garrison Keillor
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. — Alexander Pope
It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be… — Evelyn Waugh
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and… — Ian Fleming
I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to… — Neil Postman
May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police. — Thomas Merton
The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly… — Thomas Merton
It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all. — Ugo Betti
Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it. — Mehmet Oz
To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication… — Steve Garvey
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived… — Soren Kierkegaard
Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink. — Paul Theroux
My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the… — Jennifer Lynch
Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know… — George Mikes
The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death. — William C. Brown
The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the… — Dennis Lehane

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