"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."

Beecher, Henry Ward on perfection
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"The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form."

Randall, Stanely J. on perfection
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"Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it."

Dali, Salvador on perfection
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"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target."

Fisher, Geoffrey F. on perfection
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"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mind
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"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth."

Bakunin, Mikhail on religion
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"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

Epicurus on atheism
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"To change and change for the better are two different things"

Proverb, German on change
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"Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger."

Letterman, Elmer G. on action
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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."

Locke, John on parents and parenting
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"Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me."

Pope, Alexander on mercy
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"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."

Reagan, Ronald on politics
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"There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them."

Proverb, French on miracles
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"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly."

Swift, Jonathan on heaven
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"If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living."

Casson, Herbert N. on money
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"Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame."

Thoreau, Henry David on love
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"Amateurs hope, professionals work."

Kanin, Garson on hope
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"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."

Stoppard, Tom on age and aging
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"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself."

Barr, Roseanne on temperament
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"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on courage   

"Live as if everything you do will eventually be known."

Prather, Hugh on life
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on trust
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"May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."

Voltaire on friends and friendship
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"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

Voltaire on death
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on dedication
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"When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel."

Weitz, John on dress
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"People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long."

Brecht, Bertolt on endurance   

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

Keller, Helen on anger
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"The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next."

Faulkner, William on quarrels
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"Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy."

Ovid on sin   

"Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it."

Horton, Doug on selfishness
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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

Barrymore, John on dream
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"I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid."

Banderas, Antonio on stupidity   

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on books - reading
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"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."

Mailer, Norman on change
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"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

Hazlitt, William on value
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"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."

Robbins, Anthony on questions
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"In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

Bible on wisdom
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"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

Jerome, St. on friends and friendship
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