Life cannot be avoided because you are life and no matter how much you try to perform, perfect, please, or prove, you cannot escape yourself.
While I absolutely believe that AA is far from perfect, please trust me when I suggest that we would not want to wake up tomorrow in a world without it.
The system is not perfect, we are not perfect, but please do not trash us all or the public school system because there are an imperfect few among us.
"He even demanded perfection with the torch: 'Perfect driving, please,' " he said.
Because of his inclusion of purposiveness in his conception of perfection, he argues that the perfect can please us "either because of its material, or because of its external form, or through its inner constitution, by means of which it is an instrument or means for the achievement of some final end" (ibid., p. 307).
Mr. Tresnjak sees the theme of the play, whose central character is an exiled duke with a talent for sorcery, as "the desire to be perfect, to please".
The scribbles gave way to actual cards, and even gifts (most famously, an 8-year-old who begged for $20 to give me the "perfect present, please, please, you'll love it" and bought me a $20 gift card to my favorite kitchen store).
Still, he encounters a fair amount of local color on his travels -- whether it's an opium den in Hanoi or a man in Ulan Bator who asks him, in perfect English, "Please don't laugh, but would you like to buy a wolf?" On the fortunetelling front, Terzani stumbles across just as many surprises.
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So this holiday season as we begin our quests to find "the perfect gifts," please consider the gift of giving, made so much easier thanks to a phenomenal local resource.
She defines hustling as the need to please, perfect, pretend, and to prove your worth.
