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    Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.

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    [J.F] Kennedy's own accent was inconsistent. So people are inconsistent. And it always kind of irks me when people talk about inconsistent accents, because people are imperfect by nature. So in the end, what you do is, you do an inhabitation and not an imitation.

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    Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

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    Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

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    My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

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    No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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    Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

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    Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

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    Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

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    Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.

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    People are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean they spoil like milk.

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    [On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

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    Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

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    Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

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    Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

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    Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.

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    So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

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    Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

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    The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

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    The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when you have to ask if a penalty that is so permanent can be available in such an imperfect system. The only guarantee against executing the innocent is to do away with the death penalty.

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    The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

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    [T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

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    The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

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    The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

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    The imperfect is our paradise.

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    The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

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    The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

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    the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

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    The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.

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    The pacifist streak in German politics is a problem. But Greens and Social Democrats have to ask themselves: In an imperfect world, what do they prefer? The rise of the right or the success of the European project?

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    There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

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    Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

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    To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.

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    To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

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    This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

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    To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

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    To love beauty is to see light.

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    To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

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    We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

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    We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

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    We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

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    We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

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    Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

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    What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

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    When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.

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    Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?

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    ...you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

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    Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

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    Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

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    You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself