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• Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer.

  Margaret Atwood

  Falling In Love, Sex, Real

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Oryx And Crake”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

  Anatole France

  Essence, Imperfection, Being Imperfect

  Anatole France (1920). “The garden of Epicurus”

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• A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Clever, Men, Perfectly Good

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• Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Broken, Awkward, May

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• We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rebel, Arms, Creatures

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• Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

  Brooks Atkinson

  New Year, Memories, Holiday

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• It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  'The Kreutzer Sonata' 5 (translated by Maude)

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• We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our light, so that we can continue to inspire other people and employ other people, and make room for more and more voices and presence.

  Kerry Washington

  Badass, Light, Voice

  "Kerry Washington Gave A Badass Speech About Women In Hollywood" by Ashly Perez, www.buzzfeed.com. June 12, 2014.

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• I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

  Adam Young

  Jesus, Grace And Mercy, Christ

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• At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

  John Paul Stevens

  Government, Self, People

  "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310". United States Supreme Court case No. 08-205, caselaw.findlaw.com. January 21, 2010.

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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.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Looks, May, My Own

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

  Victoria Moran

  Beauty, Beautiful, Love You

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  Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

  Milton Friedman

  Perfectly Good, Government, Ink And Paper

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• A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

  Haruki Murakami

  Perfection, Limitless, Type

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 20, 2010

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• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

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• If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  God, Being Yourself, Religious

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.16, Ignatius Press

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• Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Political, Causes, Charity

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Perfect, May, States

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.22

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• Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. When we don't have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Positive Thinking, Acceptance

  "Brené Brown's Top 4 Life Lessons". www.oprah.com.

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• The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Soul, Looks, Celebration

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• Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Spiritual, People, Should

  “Lord, I Believe” By Jeffrey R. Holland, www.lds.org. April 2013.

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• I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.

  Marc Jacobs

  Life, Real, Expression

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• The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Struggle, Church, Exhausted

  "Come, Join with Us". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2013.

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• I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken - I to whom there is no beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely.

  Virginia Woolf

  Lonely, Heart, Moon

  Virginia Woolf (1976). “The Waves”, Chatto & Windus

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