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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. – Ivan Pavlov
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter. – Carlyle
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. – Leo Buscaglia
Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. – La Rochefoucauld
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you. – Mary Ross
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education. – Burk Hudson
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Perfection is my willingness to be less than perfect – Greg Clowminzer
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

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