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«In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.»
«If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success»
«I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man»
«I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.»
Author: Edward Albee | About: Play | Keywords: imperfect, suggesting, the play
«Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: imperfect
«God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.»
«Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity.»
«Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.»
«Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.»
«It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.»

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