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On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction. — Charles Garfield
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death — Andre Gide
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small. — Joseph Wood Krutch
I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one. — Carrie P Snow
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt… — Lynn Andrews
What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the… — F. Huegel
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may… — Bill McKibben
It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better,… — Frederick Lenz
If you do a lot of things to build business, you'll build business. They don't have to be done perfectly to work, although the better… — Joe Girard
And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain… — Robert Boyle
In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness. — Frederick Lenz
Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you… — Frederick Lenz
If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life - that type of… — Frederick Lenz
I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns.… — William J. Clinton
What is perfectly true is perfectly witty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body. — Benjamin Franklin
Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book. — Mark Twain
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must… — Pablo Picasso
I know perfectly well my own egotism. — Walt Whitman
You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right,… — Christine Lagarde
I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist… — Neil Gaiman

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