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Does ‘anal-retentive’ have a hyphen?
Author: Alison Bechdel, 1990 Dykes to Watch Out For calendar (Thanks, Chelsea)
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Author: Carl Schurz, address, Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1859
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He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
Author: Charles Lamb
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One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Author: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
Author: Ed Howe
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To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.
Author: George Fisher
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
Author: Goethe
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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Author: Harriet Braiker
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The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can’t separate them. They’re wedded.
Author: Henry Miller
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Author: Henry van Dyke
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless.
Author: Italian Proverb
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
Author: John Henry Newman
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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano
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You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
Author: Martha Graham
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Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence.
Author: Rosalynn Carter
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Author: Samuel McChord Crothers
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A good garden may have some weeds.
Author: Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.
Author: Wilt Chamberlain
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