“ Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will? ”
- Cal Thomas- Copy
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“ Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. ”
- Robert Schuller- Copy
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“ To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly! ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned. ”
- Harrison Salisbury- Copy
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“ Gratitude to benefactors is a well-recognized virtue, and to express it in some form or other, however imperfectly, is a duty to ourselves as well as to those who have helped us. ”
- Frederick Douglass- Copy
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“ PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds… ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming — the echo of God on the human wall! ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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