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But even one of the founders of philosophy wasn't perfect.

Plato argued that beyond our imperfect world was a perfect unchanging world of Forms.

Plato argued that philosophers should strive to contemplate and understand these perfect Forms so that they may better navigate our misleading reality.

The funny thing was, it was actually at that time a feminist declaration of independence from the pressure I felt as a 17-year-old, to conform to a perfect and unattainable standard of beauty.

I tell you the story of how I ran for Congress because I was 33 years old and it was the first time in my entire life that I had done something that was truly brave, where I didn't worry about being perfect.

And I'm not alone: so many women I talk to tell me that they gravitate towards careers and professions that they know they're going to be great in, that they know they're going to be perfect in, and it's no wonder why.

In other words, we're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave.

And so those 600,000 jobs that are open right now in computing and tech, women are being left behind, and it means our economy is being left behind on all the innovation and problems women would solve if they were socialized to be brave instead of socialized to be perfect.

We immediately see in our program our girls' fear of not getting it right, of not being perfect.

We have to teach them to be brave in schools and early in their careers, when it has the most potential to impact their lives and the lives of others, and we have to show them that they will be loved and accepted not for being perfect but for being courageous.

In retrospect, the decision not to throw the book at Christopher makes perfect sense.

You’d be better off replying in chronological order, or even at random! Surprisingly, sometimes giving up on doing things in the perfect order may be the key to getting them done.

I know that free enterprise isn't perfect, and I know that free enterprise isn't everything we need to build a better world.

[This is a perfect time to get some work done.]

It's optimism's perfect partner.

So, perhaps we can modify that age-old saying: practice, under pressure, with focus, and with that glorious end goal in sight, makes perfect.

And talking about foreign affairs, I found the perfect ambassadors for my project ... teachers.

We got so geeked-out on making WALL-E this convincing robot, that we made his binoculars practically optically perfect.

So we went to work on these optically perfect binoculars, trying to find a solution that would maintain his true robot materials but solve this reflection problem.

This is the perfect time to bring back that glassy-eyed look.

They were extremely innovative, and the mantra was, "When we only get it right," or even, "We want it perfect."

So just as we were finishing these experiments, I was starting to write a book about originals, and I thought, "This is the perfect time to teach myself to procrastinate, while writing a chapter on procrastination."

Now, it turns out that the soil on Mars, by and large, is perfect for making bricks.

Right now, on a perfect day at the equator, in the middle of summer on Mars, temperatures can actually reach 70 degrees, but then they go down to minus 100 at night.

You can imagine, the perfect moment to start this new job.

All the while, the skeleton lay everlasting and unchanging in perfect equilibrium within its rocky grave.

If you've ever dated anyone from Seattle, this makes perfect sense.

But she did it, and it's perfect.

It was like we were both heroes climbing up into a mountain range together and we kept arriving at new vistas, and these new, perfect constellations of words would come out of us to describe them.

Maybe that's the paradox: constraints don't constrain, they allow perfect freedom.

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