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• The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. (Andrew Jackson) [wisdom/system/perfect/equality]
• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. (Joseph Addison) [more/perfect/more]
• The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable. (Greg Anderson) [perfect/change/control/stress]
• The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate. ( Aristotle) [perfect/more]
• Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. (Francis Bacon) [perfect/nature/experience]
• Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. (Albert Camus) [culture/society/perfect/creation]
• Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world. (Albert Camus) [willpower/perfect/society]
• Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [men/perfect/perfect/god]
• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. (Winston Churchill) [change/perfect/change]
• Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. (Charles Caleb Colton) [perfect/order/exercise/genius]
• The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ( Confucius) [life/perfect]
• To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. ( Confucius) [perfect/virtue/honesty]
• I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. (Isadora Duncan) [perfect/theatre/repetition/words]
• The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. (George Eliot) [perfect/men]
• The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. (George Eliot) [happiness/high/perfect/follow]
• It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [opinion/solitude/perfect/solitude]
• The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [beauty/perfect/economy]
• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. (Mahatma Gandhi) [enemies/perfect]
• The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation. (Germaine Greer) [perfect/love/love/discipline]
• It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself? (Georg Hegel) [matter/perfect/thing/question]
• Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. (Patrick Henry) [perfect/health/health/citizenship]
• We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty. (Victor Hugo) [perfect/happiness/happiness/life]
• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. (Henry Kissinger) [men/feeling/perfect]
• Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [perfect/courage]
• Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [perfect]
• Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. ( Laozi) [perfect/discipline/fear/courage]
• Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. ( Laozi) [perfect/discipline/fear/courage]
• A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. (Doris Lessing) [perfect/prayer]
• The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [perfect/ability]
• Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [life/being/perfect]
• The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. (Henry Miller) [perfect/consciousness]

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