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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Sydney Smith He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bruce Nordstrom Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lord George Byron I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brigham Young I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Jane Austen I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Groucho Marx I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Lin Yutang If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
    Lin Yutang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bob Beauprez In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Angela Davis Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
    Women, Race, & Class (2011) 222
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James Baldwin It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Walter Lippmann It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Brian P. Cleary It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Albert Claude Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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