Chapter Twenty Seven: The Twelve Thoughts

New World of America

Know All Men By These Presents

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The Twelve Unforgivable Thoughts

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#1

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection

hands down, every time.

Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

#2

Perfection is achieved, not when

there is nothing more to add,

but when there is nothing

else to take away.

Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, Airman's Oddesey

#3

The unqualified truth is, that when

I loved Estella with the love of a man,

I loved her simply because I have found

her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to

my sorrow, often and often, if not always,

that I loved her against reason, against

promise, against peace, against hope,

against happiness, against all discouragement

that could be. Once for all; I love her

none the less because I knew it, and it had

no more influence in restraining me,

than if I had devoutly believed her

to be human perfection.

Charles Dickens, Great Expections

#4

Perfection of character is this: to live each

day as if it were your last, without frenzy,

without apathy, without pretense.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditation

#5

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in

the things humans make, I want to see

scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Yohji Yamamoto

#6

I am careful not to confuse excellence

with perfection. Excellence I can reach for;

Perfection is God's business.

Michael J. Fox

#7

When all the details fit in perfectly,

something is probably wrong with the story.

Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House:

Essays on Fiction

#8

When it can be said by any country in the

world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance

nor distress is to be found among them, my

jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of

beggars, the aged are not in want, 

the taxes are not oppressive, the rational

world is my friend because I am the friend

of happiness. When these things can be said,

then may that country boast its constitution

and government. Independence is my

happiness, the world is my country

and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

#9

"We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time.

It's just that we are a different kind each day.

We think, I am not a fool today. I've learned

my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not

this morning. Then tomorrow we find out

that, yes, we were a fool today. I think the only

way we can grow and get on in this world

is to accept the fact we're not perfect

and live accordingly."

Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

#10

Nobody's perfect. 

We're all just one step up from the beasts 

and one step down from the angels 

Jeannetth Walls, Half Broke Horses

#11

There is in all things a pattern that is part

of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance,

and grace - these qualities you find always

in that the true artist captures. You can find

it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand

trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters

of the creosote bush of the pattern of

its leaves. We try to copy these patterns

in our lives and in our society, seeking the

rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort.

Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding

of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the

ultimate pattern contains its own fixity.

In such perfection, all things move 

towards death.

Frank Herbert, Dune

#12

There are two kinds of perfect:

The one you can never achieve,

and the other, just by being yourself.

Lauren King

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All those who will attempt to pose opposition to ban these thoughts shall be put to a summary trial of facts that leads to the punishment of death, and nothing less. Those who wish to live shall comply with the perfection established by the natural order of things, and of to come. That women, as dangerous as they are, shall not be tried at all but to be sentenced immediately, and in the best interest of justice, once they committed these acts, pursuant to the great ideals of freedom and the soul of the truth contained in the belief of the revealed Genesis Technology.

And may all the authors of these poisonous

literature be judged by the same history that brought perpetual death to be the worst kind of evil ever defined, and may they deserve to be, where they are now, as vile and rebellious as their mind took us to settle down into the comfort of disorder for too long, as to be punished by the same fate of eternal fire.

From the New World

By Virtue of the Genesis

We are as always prayerful,

The Procurators

May Satan Fall in his Own Work

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