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If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust. — Charles Sanders Peirce
You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that. — Abe Burrows
If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all.… — Chogyam Trungpa
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule. — Jules Michelet
Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them. — Michael Beckwith
The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly… — Joshua Reynolds
Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you… — Friedrich Engels
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and… — Swami Vivekananda
I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney… — Charles Schumer
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot.… — Todd Solondz
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a… — John Forbes Nash
No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but… — Robert Genn
The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all… — Lawren Harris
Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man… — John Muir
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else — Will Rogers
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. — Brigham Young
No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste;… — John Muir
Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one… — Thomas Aquinas
Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live… — Akhmad Kadyrov
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon… — John Muir
The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner… — Frederick Lenz
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could… — Benjamin Franklin
The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which… — Gaston Bachelard
It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and… — Frederick Lenz

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