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.

In the post war period, Latvia was made to adopt Soviet farming methods.

Sami is anything but perfect.

Thus do accounting rules approach perfection.

Driven by the Romantic Era, an atmosphere of protest and revolt was all around in France.

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.

Social change, for Marx, was about conflict between opposing interests, driven, in the background, by economic forces.

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.

And further proof that Langley was motivated by the wrong thing The day the Wright brothers took flight, he quit.

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.

The strong growth of the global economy in 2003 and 2004 was both reflected in and driven by strong growth in world trade.

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.

I represent the part of a global community that is imbued with an ideal vision driven by lofty goals and fired by a desire to achieve the most with scarce resources.

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.

Innovation can be induced from an outside actor (such as the case of the European Union and its accession policy) or it can be internally driven.

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.