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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. -- George Orwell
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. -- Pir Vilayat Khan
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. -- Armstrong Williams
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. -- Nicolas Cage
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. -- Erica Jong
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. -- Ben Okri
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. -- Adam Smith
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. -- Maimonides
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. -- Elihu Root
It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being. -- Enrico Caruso
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. -- Mark Helprin
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. -- Richard Courant
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. -- Lewis Mumford
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. -- Ann Landers
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. -- Alfred Adler
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection. -- Samuel Freeman Miller

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