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Perfection is only a standard set by the human mind as to what it desires. – Alishia May
Perfection is the enemy of the good. – Gustave Flaubert
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. – Saint Thomas Aquinas
Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. – Dejan Stojanovic
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being. – John Updike
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you. – Alfred Victor Vigny
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else. – Harold Geneen
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence. – Benjamin McLane Spock
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. – Eric Hoffer
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. – Barbara Mikkelson
Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning. – Michael R. Baer
Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. – Virgil
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past. – Dean Koontz
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad. – R. D. Laing
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being. – Charles Dudley Warner
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians. – Franklin P. Jones
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing. – Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember. – Unknown
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. – George Orwell, 1984
Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in. – Franklin P. Jones
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern -- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be – William Hazlitt

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