"I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Barry Blitt

#Perfection Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Adequate Quotes

“To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.”
“Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.”
“The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.”
“Blogging is best learned by blogging...and by reading other bloggers.”
“To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!”

Source : Gertrude Bell (2012). “The Desert and the Sown: Travels in Palestine and Syria”, p.64, Courier Corporation
“I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.”
“We are punished by our sins, not for them.”
“Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer" when the bluebirds withdraw their touch of brightness from the dreary November landscape at the north to whirl through the southern woods and feed on the waxy berries of the mistletoe.”

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