Programming Human Perfectibility?

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me for I wait on thee.

Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that the individual reaches perfection by exercising the will to power.

Sami is anything but perfect.

Thus do accounting rules approach perfection.

The Commission s proposal is far from perfect.

We do not suggest that our judiciary is perfect.

None of them has appeared to be perfect.

Underlying it all was a willingness to evolve a drive for perfection through experimentation.

I demand perfection and quality in everything.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Above all, we must never lose hope in the Organization's capacity for reform, its perfectibility.

Admittedly, and fortunately, the parallels are far from perfect.

But there are limits.

The Khmer Rouge prosecutions will not be perfect. But they are necessary.

There is no doubt that the Government's counter terrorism campaign does create many problems and difficulties which have a direct and an indirect impact on human rights.

In a nearly perfect world, Russia and the US would not need large nuclear stockpiles.

While the UN system is far from perfect, the world would be a poorer and more disorderly place without it.

We Indians have learned to take human beings as they are, which is to say, as grossly imperfect.

Free trade is far from perfect, but the alternatives are worse.

As is true of all public policies, textbook perfection was not achieved.

And yet there is still hope in this imperfect world.

To what extent are developing countries directing more FDI to other developing countries? Data are far from perfect.

Most importantly, the rules must recognize their own imperfection and thus must remain open to review and improvement.

They have always been imperfect, and today their flaws are visible in new ways.

Of course, parliamentary political systems are far from perfect.

Of course, parliamentary political systems are far from perfect.

He participated in the Guadalajara Film Festival (2009) during the presentation of the movie The Perfect Game with Eva Longoria.

The United Nations is far from perfect. It needs reform as do the bodies that provide global economic governance.

While far from perfect, the first round in the fight went to the US.

Property b) is trivial, and property a) is simply a reformulaton of the completeness axiom.

None of the proposals suggested thus far is perfect, and many of the details need to be worked out. But the pendulum has swung back from unilateralism to multilateralism, and the world s largest countries are searching for ways to make it more effective.

A company s knowledge of the future results of a new business undertaking is imperfect to say the least.

But replacing private insurance with government insurance plans is far from optimal.

Mr. Alarcón (Costa Rica) said that the methodology for determining the scale of assessments was far from perfect and should be improved.

At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce.

This is less than optimal, but in a non polar world, what is best may well prove the enemy of the possible.

While the Multinational Force's work is far from complete, it has already been able to transfer some security responsibilities.

Bureaucratization, anonymous manipulation, and emphasis on mass conformism were brought to perfection in the Communist system however, some of the very same threats are with us today.

It is one of the ten pāramīs of the Theravāda school of Buddhism, and the first of the four sublime states ( Brahmavihāras ).

American presidential elections provide a near perfect test to understand the difference between European and Asian worldviews, even if the two continents are far from united internally.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,