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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are br

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. – Thomas Carlyle

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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. – Thomas Carlyle

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Everything is perfect in the universe — even your desire to improve it. – Wayne Dyer

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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. – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. – Italian Proverb

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As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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