Bill Gates

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

American Businessman

Golda Meir

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Israeli Leader

Joel Osteen

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

American Clergyman

P. J. O'Rourke

My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.

American Comedian

George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

British Author

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.

American Boxer

Toni Morrison

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

American Novelist

George Harrison

If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn't be here in the physical world.

British Musician

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

Swedish Athlete

Yogi Berra

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

American Baseball Player

Often used to describe excellence in skills, work, and physical objects.

Common Qualities

Sometimes used to express high quality rather than actual flawlessness.

Not Always Literal

Can be an overstatement. Not everything great is 'perfect.' Use sparingly.

Exaggeration Risk

What's perfect for one may not be for another. It's often subjective.

Subjectivity

Highlights a strong match between object/person and their context or purpose.

Situational Use

Perfecting is continuous. It conveys effort towards constant improvement.

Ongoing Process

Describing someone as a 'perfect' is rare and often not meant literally.

Rarely Literal

How 'a perfect' is received depends on context and tone. It can be serious or ironic.

Nuance in Context

When used with absolutes, it emphasizes intensity, not perfection.

Intensity Emphasis

 Some are small and unimportant, but others have a larger impact on our lives. For example, which politician should I vote for? Should I try the latest diet craze? Or will email make me a millionaire? We're bombarded with so many decisions that it's impossible to make a perfect choice every time.

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 have stymied every idea for perpetual motion and the dreams of perfectly efficient energy generation they imply. Yet it's hard to conclusively say we'll never discover a perpetual motion machine because there's still so much we don't understand about the universe.

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 and for years, I always used to eat them like this. What? And they taste disgusting because they're full of-- --this yellow kind of weird stuff and really pungent. It stays with you forever. But if you cook them and you barbecue them up, then it's perfect.

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 Why not? Because the brain has to do it. So you do it again. All right, that's perfect. Thank you guys for being such a good sport. This is what's happening all across the world -- electrophysiology! We're going to bring on the neuro-revolution. Thank you.

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 not about some particular government or technology, but the very idea that humanity can be molded into an ideal shape. Think back to the perfect world you imagined. Did you also imagine what it would take to achieve? How would you make people cooperate?

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 assuming that there is such a thing as a perfect marriage that will inoculate us against wanderlust. But what if passion has a finite shelf life? What if there are things that even a good relationship can never provide?

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 It's vital that the crabs have the best possible protection from the heavy teeth of the waiting sharks and rays. For that, they need the shell with a perfect fit.

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Common Qualities

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Exaggeration Risk

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