Emmeline Pankhurst

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

English Activist

Brene Brown

I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

American Author

Alice Walker

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

American Clergyman

Jake Sullivan

Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.

American Public Servant

Hermann Hesse

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

German Novelist

John Ruskin

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

English Writer

Eustace Budgell

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Joyce Meyer

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Anne Bronte

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.

British Novelist

Avoid using 'imperfect' too frequently as a crutch for criticism; it can become repetitive.

Common Overuse

'Imperfect' sometimes highlights uniqueness or character, not just errors or flaws.

Positive Spin

Remember that 'imperfect' doesn't always imply something is bad or undesirable.

Not Always Negative

Imperfect tense gives a sense of ongoing past actions, often setting scenes or backgrounds.

Temporal Nuance

Use the imperfect to talk about past actions without a definite end or specific duration.

Unfinished Actions

Imperfect tense is also used to describe habitual actions in the past.

Describing Habits

In music, 'imperfect' doesn't mean wrong; it refers to specific chord progressions.

Music Terminology

Imperfect cadences create a sense of expectation or unresolved musical tension.

Creative Tension

Use 'imperfect' to imply mystery or suspense in musical compositions or analyses.

Musical Suspense

 with excellent law enforcement, so it's about pulling that all together, and you can actually have people in very poor communities experience law enforcement like us, which is imperfect in our own experience, for sure, but boy, is it a great thing to sense that you can call 911 and maybe someone will protect you.

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 really what the future of the country is all that talk about autocratic rule I know but I'm gonna get into too much politics here but all that talk about autocratic rule I think we have to really want ask some deep questions about what are we willing to do to protect democracy even the imperfect

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 with your whole heart. And so these folks had, very simply, the courage to be imperfect. They had the compassion to be kind to themselves first and then to others, because, as it turns out, we can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly.

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 But even one of the founders of philosophy wasn't perfect. Along with his great ideas, Plato had a few that haven't exactly stood the test of time. So here are brief rundowns of a few of his best and worst ideas. Plato argued that beyond our imperfect world

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 Now we take those human demonstrations -- they're all noisy and imperfect -- and we extract from them an inferred task trajectory and control sequence for the robot. We then execute that on the robot, we observe what happens, then we adjust the controls,

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 whether pleasurable or painful? Do you yourself have more value when you're experiencing real life's pleasures and pains? Nozick's experiment may not provide all the answers, but it forces us to consider whether real life, though imperfect,

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 impact wildlife, and even harm us. So considering all these risks, why do we continue using pesticides? Although they're imperfect, they currently may be our best bet against major agricultural disasters,

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 what's cool about motor learning things is actually there fish eating penguins these are healthy birds but not all of the eggs come out the same size and some had imperfect shells so before they

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 in the off chance that she can save her daddy's life because he has cancer. These are just three examples of thousands, thousands of girls who have been socialized to be imperfect,

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 harshest of terrains took his armies over impossibly high mountains without any preparation whatsoever in surprise attacks he was also a highly imperfect man he