Word: imperfections
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...them is also authentically lonely. No matter what riches, fame or influence you might acquire in your lifetime, none will contribute to your happiness or fulfillment in the same way that a group of close friends will. Find them, cultivate them, retain them. They will prove themselves imperfect, as all of us do, but you should prefer to be with them than with the finest people in the world...
Though Harvard negotiators realized maintaining the agreement was an imperfect solution, they compromised on the arrangement to finalize the overall merger...
...church that preaches the impermissibility of so many forms of consensual, adult sex simultaneously tolerate, ignore or cover up the sexual abuse of children by its own priests? Pedophilia is not a failing; it is not some imperfect but victimless expression of sexuality among consenting adults. It is a crime. To my mind, the violation of a child's innocence, the betrayal of a priestly trust, the rape of a minor's very body provide about as good a definition of evil as one can find. Yet a church that regularly condemns and judges so many of its congregants...
...Don’t negotiate with terrorists but with people who are dissatisfied so they don’t stay dissatisfied,” he told the audience in his occasionally imperfect English...
...spite of these inconsistencies, the intentions expressed in Summers’ statement are promising, and it can be hard to remember that intentions themselves are not enough. The administration’s past record of implementing labor policies that benefit workers could politely be described as imperfect. Though Harvard’s Bridge to Learning worker education program has enrolled an increasing number of people, many workers still report difficulty gaining access to the program’s benefits. It would be a travesty for the wage hikes that have been promised to remain in the realm of theory...